The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene [left panel]

Italienische Malerei 1480–1495, vers 1482/1485

A man stands, leaning on a staff used like a crutch, in a deep, rocky landscape in this round-topped vertical painting. The cleanshaven man has tanned skin and sparse gray hair. He is nude aside from a slate-gray cloth that wraps around his hips. The hand not bracing the crutch is held in a loose fist at his chest. A few plants grow and bloom along the bottom of the panel. The dirt path on which the man stands winds through low, grass-covered mounds to a cave opening at the base of a tall, steep cliff face. A lion stands on the path between the man and the cave. An owl perches in the bare, spike-like branches of a spindly tree growing to our right of the man.
Artiste
Italienische Malerei 1480–1495
Datation
vers 1482/1485
Catégorie
Peinture
Technique
Huile sur bois transposée sur toile
Dimensions
95 × 30,1 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Domaine public, CC0

Description de l’image

A man stands, leaning on a staff used like a crutch, in a deep, rocky landscape in this round-topped vertical painting. The cleanshaven man has tanned skin and sparse gray hair. He is nude aside from a slate-gray cloth that wraps around his hips. The hand not bracing the crutch is held in a loose fist at his chest. A few plants grow and bloom along the bottom of the panel. The dirt path on which the man stands winds through low, grass-covered mounds to a cave opening at the base of a tall, steep cliff face. A lion stands on the path between the man and the cave. An owl perches in the bare, spike-like branches of a spindly tree growing to our right of the man.

Italienische Malerei 1480–1495