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CRANACH, Lucas the Elder: The Crucifixion

🖼 The Crucifixion, c. 1501
Oil and tempera on limewood
59 × 45 cm
Vienna, Austria

Golden light bathes a towering cross while Christ's body hangs centrally, flanked by mourning figures in precise Renaissance composition. Cranach's work exemplifies German religious intensity, blending Italian technique with Northern emotional depth to define early 16th-century sacred art.

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