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CECCO DEL CARAVAGGIO: Christ Falls on the Road to Calvary

🖼 Christ Falls on the Road to Calvary, 1610-11
Oil on canvas
98 × 130 cm
Bratislava, Slovakia

Dramatic diagonal composition shows Christ collapsed beneath the cross, soldiers and followers surrounding him in chiaroscuro light. Cecco captures raw physical suffering with Caravaggesque realism, emphasizing human vulnerability over divine transcendence—a bold theological statement in Counter-Reformation art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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