Christ Carrying the Cross
(c1738)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
(Venice, 1696 - 1770)
Mark 15:16-27
Golgotha by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Created
- c. 1755
- Dimension
- 80cm × 75cm
- Method
- oil on canvas
- Passage
- John 19:38-42
- Housed at
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Museumpark 18-20, Rotterdam
Christ is still on his cross when the two criminals are taken down from theirs. In the foreground Mary has fainted. John the Evangelist, dressed in green, looks up to his dead master.
A group of men with a ladder approach. The first is Nicodemus, who had permission from Pilate to take away Christ's body.
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