Andrea Mantegna
Crucifixion
1459
67 cm × 93 cm
Louvre, Paris
Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) was a Renaissance painter.
Their characters are very dramatic and realistic about the idealization of bodies, they are skeletalbodies that show suffering.
Diego Velazquez
Crucified Christ
1631
Oil on canvas
248 cm x 169 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid
Diego Rodriguez Silva and Velazquez (1599-1660) was a Spanish painter and chiefcourt artist of King Philip IV of Spain. He was an individualist artist of the contemporary Baroque period, importantas a portraitist.
Crucified Christ is a 1632 painting by Diego Velazquez depicting the crucifixion of Jesus. Apollonian perfection of the crucifixion, of an almost divine and perfect beauty, according to the belief that Christ was the most beautifulof all men.
The baroquelight-dark technique that contrasts the total darkness of the background with the light that bathes the body of Christ.
Paul Gauguin
Yellow Christ
1989
Oil on canvas
91 cm x 73 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French painterofpost-impressionism. He was a restless and curious man, spent his whole life searching for the truth. Who we are? Where are we going? And to represent in their pictures religious things like this. Gauguin left Paris to move away from materialism, went toBretagne for spirituality.
His religious pictures are searchingfor the truth behind everything.
Yellow Christ is considered one of the main works of Symbolism in painting.
Salvador Dali
The crucifix
Oil on canvas
205 x 116 cm
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow
Salvador Dalí i Domènech(1904-1989) was an important Spanish painter, known for his surrealist work.
Mystical stage in which the artist often represented religious things inspired by Spanish Baroque.The Crucifix appears suspended, as if floating throughCadaqués. Spain, where the painter had his home.
Manuel Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1978
50 cm x 65 cm
Manuel Pereira da Silva had several orders from the Church in which he represented scenes from the Passionof Christ, the Via Sacra, the Ascension of Christ(Santa Luzia Sanctuary, Viana do Castelo), Our Lady of Areosa (Areosa Church, Porto), beyond countless busts and monuments of church members.
But it was in his studio that he most designed the Crucifixion, especially the paper ballpoint pen, despite being an atheist.
Manuel Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1978
50 cm x 65 cm
Manuel Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1978
40 cm x 60 cm
Manuel Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1978
50 cm x 65 cm
Manuel Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1979
50 cm x 65 cm
Manuel Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1989
27 cm x 50 cm
Manuel Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1989
20 cm x 29 cm