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Description

Here Massijs, a leading artist in early 16th-century Antwerp, paints an intense picture of Jesus’s suffering. Jesus appears close to the foreground, connecting almost tangibly with the viewer: bloodied and bowed under the weight of the cross. This penetrating depiction helped worshippers empathise with Jesus’s pain.

Christ Carrying the Cross

c. 1510 - c. 1515

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Dimensions

support: height 83 cm x width 59 cm

Classification

Painting

Museum

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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