The Centurion under the Cross is a oil on panel painting by Derick Baegert (1440–1515), created in 1477. Measuring 53 × 82 cm, it depicts the biblical scene from Luke 23:44-49. This painting is housed at Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Villa Favorita, Via Riviera 14, Castagnola, Lugano.
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.