a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

The Crucifixion
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
  Painting

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This work depicts the crucifixion of Jesus that occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33. It is described in the four canonical gospels  which state Jesus was arrested and tried by the Sanhedrin, and then sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified by the Romans The Gospel of John portrays his death as a sacrifice for sin.

The Crucifixion
Artist: Paul Delvaux
 1952    Painting

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In the 1950s Delvaux painted a series of religious paintings on the subject of the Passion of Christ. In this image, Christ is depicted as a skeleton on the cross between two other crucified skeletons. Below the skeletons gather the armored centurions. The skeleton of Christ is illuminated in bright light, but all the other figures are in shadow. 

This work is oil on wood and is housed in the Royal Beaux-Arts Museum in Brussels