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CARRACCI, Annibale: Crucifixion

🖼 Crucifixion, 1583
Oil on canvas
305 × 210 cm
Bologna, Italy

Dramatic light illuminates Christ's body against dark sky, while mourners gesture in anguished poses below the cross. Carracci's dynamic composition and emotional intensity pioneered the Baroque style that would define Counter-Reformation religious art across Europe.

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