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The main light source is not evident in the painting but comes from the upper left; the lesser light source is the lantern held by the man at the right (believed to be a self-portrait of Caravaggio; also, presumably, representing St Peter, who would first betray Jesus by denying him, and then go on to bring the light of Christ to the world). At ...
The ladder used for the Deposition, i.e. the removal of Christ's body from the cross for burial; The ropes used for the Raising of the Cross; The hammer used to drive the nails into Jesus' hands and feet; The pincers used to remove the nails; The vessel of myrrh, used to anoint the body of Jesus, either by Joseph of Arimathea or by the Myrrhbearers
The Fulham gladius or Mainz-Fulham gladius was a Roman sword that was used after Aulus Plautius' invasion of Britain in 43 AD. [24] The Romans used it until the end of the 1st century. The Fulham gladius has a triangular tip. The length of the blade is 50–55 cm (20–22 in). The length of the sword is 65–70 cm (26–28 in).
The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, executed in 1601, and now in London. It depicts the Gospel story of the resurrected Jesus's appearance in Emmaus. Originally this painting was commissioned and paid for by Ciriaco Mattei, brother of cardinal Girolamo Mattei.
Standing on a staircase, Jesus appears in the center of the painting, leaning towards Peter, who kneels to receive the keys. On the ground, lie the iconographic symbols of an open book and a sword, while in the sky, some angels, seraphs and cherubs, appear among the clouds to witness and to celebrate the event.
Christ taking Leave of his Mother, by Albrecht Altdorfer c. 1520, one of the treatments with a landscape background.. The subject does not illustrate any Biblical passage, but derives from one of the Pseudo-Bonaventura's "Meditations on the life of Christ" (1308), and the "Marienleben" (German for "Life of the Virgin"; about 1300) by Philipp von Seitz [], also known as "Brother Philipp, the ...
A controversy has ensued in Spain over an artwork created for Easter week in Seville, with some seeing the image of Jesus created by artist Salustiano García as sexualized and offensive, which ...
The scenes of the Passion start in the distance at the top left with Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, passes through the town and out again to the bottom left to the Garden of Gethsemane, through the Passion scenes in the centre of the city (judgment of Pilate, the Flagellation of Jesus, Crowning with Thorns, Ecce Homo), then follows the procession of the cross back out of the city ...