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VERONESE, Paolo: Crucifixion

🖼 Crucifixion, c. 1582
Oil on canvas
102 × 102 cm
Paris, France

Dramatic light bathes Christ's figure while soldiers and mourners swirl below in dynamic, sweeping composition. Veronese transforms the sacred tragedy into theater, emphasizing human emotion and movement over doctrinal solemnity, defining Counter-Reformation visual strategy.

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