Andrea
Mantegna
Crucifixion
1459
67
cm × 93 cm
Louvre,
Paris
Andrea
Mantegna (1431-1506) was a Renaissance painter.
Their characters are very dramatic and realistic about the idealization of bodies, they are skeletal
bodies that show suffering.
Diego
Velazquez
Crucified Christ
1631
Oil on canvas
248
cm x 169 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid
Diego
Rodriguez Silva and Velazquez (1599-1660) was a Spanish painter and chief
court artist of King Philip IV of Spain. He was an individualist artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important
as a portraitist.
Crucified Christ is a 1632 painting by Diego Velazquez depicting
the crucifixion of Jesus. Apollonian perfection of the crucifixion,
of an almost divine and
perfect beauty, according to the belief that Christ was the most beautiful
of all men.
The baroque light-dark technique that contrasts the total darkness of the background with the light that bathes the body of Christ.
Paul
Gauguin
Yellow Christ
1989
Oil on canvas
91
cm x 73 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French painter
of
post-impressionism. He was a restless and curious man, spent his whole life searching for the truth. Who we are? Where are we going? And to represent in their pictures religious things like this. Gauguin left Paris to
move away from materialism, went to Bretagne for spirituality.
His religious pictures are searching
for the truth behind everything.
Yellow Christ is considered one of the main works of Symbolism in painting.
Salvador
Dali
The crucifix
Oil on canvas
205
x 116 cm
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow
Salvador Dalí i Domènech
(1904-1989) was an important Spanish painter, known for his surrealist work.
Mystical stage in which the artist often represented religious things inspired by Spanish Baroque. The Crucifix appears suspended, as if floating through Cadaqués. Spain, where the painter had his home.
Manuel
Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1978
50
cm x 65 cm
Manuel
Pereira da Silva had several orders from the Church in which he represented scenes from the Passion
of Christ, the Via Sacra, the Ascension of Christ
(Santa Luzia Sanctuary, Viana do
Castelo), Our Lady of Areosa (Areosa Church, Porto), beyond countless busts and
monuments of church members.
But it was in his studio that he most designed the Crucifixion, especially the paper ballpoint pen, despite being an atheist.
Manuel
Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1978
50
cm x 65 cm
Manuel
Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1978
40
cm x 60 cm
Manuel
Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1978
50
cm x 65 cm
Manuel
Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1979
50
cm x 65 cm
Manuel
Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1989
27 cm x 50 cm
Manuel
Pereira da Silva
Crucifixion
Cardboard ballpoint
1989
20 cm x 29 cm
