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The Tynan Crucifixion Plaque is a small early medieval sculpture found in 1844 near Tynan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is dated to c. 1100 [ 2 ] and made from bronze . [ 3 ] As with the seven other extant Irish Early medieval Crucifixion plaques , it shows the Crucifixion of Jesus in high relief , with two attendant angels hovering ...
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. [1] [2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans, [1] among others. Crucifixion has been used in some countries as recently as the 21st century. [3]
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin The Clonmacnoise Crucifixion Plaque is a late-10th or early-11th century (often given as c. 1090–1110) Irish gilt -bronze sculpture showing the Crucifixion of Jesus , with two attendant angels hovering above his arms to his immediate left and right.
Rinnegan Crucifixion Plaque, late 7th or early 8th century The Academy Plaque, NMI. The term Crucifixion plaque refers to small Early Medieval sculptures consisting of a central panel of the still alive but crucified Jesus surrounded by four smaller ancillary panels showing Stephaton and Longinus (the lance and sponge bearers) in the lower quadrants, and two hovering attendant angels in the ...
The crucifixion of Jesus is one of the most illustrated events in human history.. For centuries, artists have reimagined it as a form of remembrance and as a means to convey the story of brutality ...
The Rinnegan Crucifixion is the earliest of the eight such medieval Irish plaques to have survived, and at 21.0 cm x 12.5 cm is the largest, [1] [5] and is widely considered the finest. [6] It's dating to the late 7th or early 8th centuries is based on the curvilinear designs, including spirals and interlace . [ 7 ]
The crucifixion of Jesus was the death of Jesus by being nailed to a cross. [note 1] It occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33.It is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, and later attested to by other ancient sources.
The Celtic Revival of the mid-19th century led to an increased use and creation of Celtic crosses in Ireland. In 1853, casts of several historical high crosses were exhibited at the Dublin Industrial Exhibition. In 1857, Henry O'Neill published Illustrations of the Most Interesting of the Sculptured Crosses of Ancient Ireland. These two events ...