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PERUGINO, Pietro: Crucifixion

🖼 Crucifixion, 1503-06
Oil on wood
400 × 289 cm
Rome, Italy

Serene landscape stretches beneath the crucified Christ, rendered with Perugino's characteristic clarity and mathematical perspective. The composition balances spiritual tragedy with Renaissance harmony, establishing the artist's influential approach to religious narrative through geometric order and atmospheric depth.

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E. H. Gombrich
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