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VOUET, Simon: Crucifixion

🖼 Crucifixion, 1622
Oil on canvas
375 × 225 cm
Genoa, Italy

Dramatic light pierces darkened clouds above Christ's figure, rendered with dynamic brushwork and emotional intensity. Vouet's Baroque composition synthesizes Italian influence with French sensibility, establishing his reputation as a leading religious painter of seventeenth-century Europe.

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