Crucifix Padua
Artist: Donatello
1445 - 49
Sculpture
This work was a bronze Crucifix intended for the altar in the centre of the choir of the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. A surviving contemporary document tells us that it was being finished and polished in 1445, though it was not completed until 1449, when it was placed in the middle of the church.
Crucifixion
Artist: Gabriel Metsu
1660
Painting
Metsu, who like Vermeer was Catholic, borrowed the youth’s pose from the Pietà. In the final phase of his career (he died at 38), he painted large religious scenes. One of them is this dark, phantasmagorial crucifixion that pales in comparison to his genre paintings.
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