The Bible In Paintings: ✝️ JESUS THE CHRIST IS CRUCIFIED ✝️ Part 3

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JESUS THE CHRIST
IS CRUCIFIED

֎ Featuring 52 Paintings, 3 Reliefs,
1 Statue and 3 Windows ֎

J O H N
«Chapter 19*»

Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

1
JAMES TISSOT
"What Our Lord Saw from the Cross"

2
JAMES TISSOT
"The Vinegar Given to Jesus"

3
by JAMES TISSOT
"Eloi Eloi Lama Sabacthani"

4
ANDREW KING
"Into Your Hands"

5
JAMES TISSOT
"It Is Finished"

Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.

6
HANS MEMLING
"Crucifixion"

7
Detail

8
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Le Coup de Lance"

9
MAERTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK
"Calvary"

10
HANS VON TÜBINGEN
"Crucifixion"

11
EDWARD BURNE JONES
"The Crucifixion [detail]"

12
French School
"Crucifixion"

13
HANS VON TÜBINGEN
"Crucifixion"

14
JAMES TISSOT
"One of the Soldiers with a Spear Pierced His Side"

The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,” and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”

15
MAERTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK
"The Crucifixion"

16
EUGÈNE DELACROIX
"Christ on the Cross"

17
DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ
"Christ Crucified"

18
TITIAN
"Crucifixion"

19
FRANCISCO DE ZURBARÁN
"Christ on the Cross"

20
MATTHIAS GRUNEWALD
"Christ on the Cross"

21
JAMES TISSOT
"Jesus Alone on the Cross"

22
T BIRD
"Crucifixion"

23
KHAIRZUL MG
"Crucifixion"

24
HOWARD DAVID JOHNSON
"The Spirit of the Prophets at the Crucifixion"

25
THERESA CANGELOSI
"The Crucifixion"

26
BELLE PEREZ-DE-TAGLE
"The Face of Love"

27
JAMES TISSOT
"The People Beholding the Things that Were Done
Smote Their Breasts"

28
ANTHONY VAN DYCK
"Crucifixion"

29
Source

30
NICOLA PISANO
"The Crucifixion"

31
GIOVANNI DI PAOLO
"The Crucifixion"

32
JUSEPE DE RIBERA
"The Calvary"

33
MATTHIAS GRÜNEWALD
"The Crucifixion"

34
Source

35
LUCA DELLA ROBBIA
"Crucifixion"

36
"The Crucifixion of Christ"

37
GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE
"Crucifixion"

38
"The Crucifixion"

39
JULES JOSEPH LEFEBVRE
"Grief of Mary Magdalene"

40
GABRIEL METSU
"Crucifixion"

41
Source

42
SIMON VOUET
"Crucifixion"

43
CARL BLOCH
"Christ on the Cross"

44
ELI STRUCK
"It Is Finished"

45
NICOLAS TOURNIER
"Crucifixion"

46
LUCA SIGNORELLI
"Crucifixion of Christ"

47
PAOLO VERONESE
"Crucifixion"

48
ANTONELLO DA MESSINA
"Crucifixion"

49
LUCAS CRANACH the Elder
"The Crucifixion"

50
ANDREA MANTEGNA
"The Crucifixion"

52
ANTHONY VAN DYCK
"Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary,
St John and St Mary Magdalene"

53
JAMES TISSOT
"The Death of Jesus"

54
PAUL GAUGUIN
Source

55
ANTONELLO DA MESSINA
"Calvary"

56
EL GRECO
"Christ on the Cross
with the Two Marys and St John"

57
GIOVANNI BATTISTA LANGETTI
"Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross"

58
POMPEO BATONI
"The Crucifixion"

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59
"Blood of Jesus"

New International Version ©1984, EMPHASES added
*For parallel accounts, see MATTHEW 27, MARK 15 and LUKE 23
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[Hebrews 11:6]

JESUS THE CHRIST
IS CRUCIFIED

[Celtic Conservative]

I have always found it interesting that some protestant denominations shy away from depictions of the crucifixion. I wonder why that is.

CC

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Good Morning, Dan.

[Red Badger]

#44 is probably the closest thing to realistic.

And even then it’s not even close.

Jesus back and side would have been like raw hamburger from the lashings of the cat-o-nine-tails.

His entire face would have been swollen beyond recognition from the beatings from the Roman soldiers.

His eyes would be nearly blinded from the blood streaming down from the crown of thorns piercing his scalp to the bone.

The excruciating pain from the spikes driven through his wrist and ankle bones to support his body on the cross would have been enough to make any man pass out not to mention from the loss of blood.

Crucifixion was a painful and nasty way to be put to death, and it was designed to be so. The Romans were not nice people and their power was evidenced through the terror they could impose upon conquered people.

The artists through the ages have cleaned up the crucifixion’s worst images to where the people have had no real idea of what Jesus really had to suffer through.

Whether through ignorance or design doesn’t matter, the truth of Jesus suffering on the cross was way beyond anything we could possibly imagine................

[Hebrews 11:6]

My policy on these threads is to avoid discussions which focus on denominational divisiveness, focusing instead on the text and the art.

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Mary-Lou!

[Hebrews 11:6]

I am in substantial agreement with you.

Moreover, Jesus knew what to expect and He went willingly anyway. We will be singing His praises eternally.............................

[Bob434]

Good to see a paul gauguin in the mix. 57 really has the muscle structure of the body painted well (as do,others too, but this one stood out)

From what I have heard in sermons, the most brutal part of crucifixion was the fact that they couldn’t hold th3mselves up, as there was nothing to stand on to relieve the pressure on the arms and rest of body, and the person usually drooped because of the weight which made it very difficult to breath even. And the fact that it usually too, a lot of time for the lerson to die, and they had to endure pain the whole time, changing pain, like pain in shoulders as the weight of body pulled on them continually- muscles cramping up likely, and nothing they could do to releive it, etc etc, I can’t even imagine how terrible it was- such a cruel death.

[Bob434]

[[Moreover, Jesus knew what to expect and He went willingly anyway]]

You would think that that fact alone would touch the hearts of atheists, but not even that can persuade them that christ was Indeed the son of God evidently.

[Red Badger]

During the filming of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”, in the flogging scene, the actor portraying Jesus, Jim Caviezel, was wearing a wooden board across his back and the actor doing the wielding of the whip was an expert in the use of it.

On one stroke, one of the ‘nine tails’ went over the side of the board and actually struck Caviezel on his side....................

https://www.ranker.com/list/passion-of-the-christ-behind-the-scenes-stories/zack-howe

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and glad ‘New Week’ to all.

So many great works here; Tissot certainly has many fine ones-

#14 Tissot
#42 Vouet
#43 Bloch

And many beautiful glass windows-

Thank You Dan!

[Hebrews 11:6]

You have understated the pain substantially. The hand nails actually went through the wrist so as to pierce the ulnar nerve, the one that produces the “funny bone”, so that to draw a breath the person had to push with his legs and pull with his arms, aggravating that nerve.

You used the word “excruciating”. Its root is “cruc”, from the Latin for cross, and is a word designed to describe the torment.

[InkStone]

“My policy on these threads is to avoid discussions which focus on denominational divisiveness, focusing instead on the text and the art.”
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This policy keeps the thread peaceful =:^)

[Squidpup]

39 struck me as I scrolled through

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We can elevate the Lord without dragging others down.

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I had heard that. Article says it happened twice.

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Dramatic lighting by Metsu; black background, with only the three figures visible. Very effective.

[Red Badger]

Yeah, I think the second time I would have gotten up and slugged the guy!.........

[etabeta]

So many great paintings.
All of TISSOT!
#6 Memling. Major Northern Renaissance artist, well known for his religious paintings. His works were influenced or inspired by Rogier van der Weyden and Petrus Christus. The Bruges Museum dedicated to him houses the majority of his paintings.
#11-12 great fenster
#17 Velazquez - Prominent artist of the Spanish Golden Age, known for the impressive use of colors. This is an intense and powerful image of the crucified Jesus. The intentional dark background emphasizes the pallor of Christ. One powerful touch is his hair running down his face like the blood from his hands and feet.
#30 by the great sculptor Pisano, from the Siena Cathedral pulpit, carved in Carrara marble.
$43 Bloch
#46 Signorelli