Christ Carrying the Cross (Q680128)

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movement: Early Netherlandish painting (Q443153) Northern Renaissance (Q610877)
genre: religious art (Q2864737)
artist: Hieronymus Bosch (Q130531)
collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880) Vlaamse Kunstcollectie (VKC) (Q2542010)
location: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880) Belgium (Q31)
main subject: Christ carrying the cross (Q3399226)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) panel (Q106857709)
exhibition history: Europeana 280 (Q20980830) Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (Q17101798)
depicts: Jesus (Q302) man (Q8441) Christ carrying the cross (Q3399226) Saint Veronica (Q196653) Simon of Cyrene (Q328739)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
MSK Gent work PID: 1902-H
BALaT object ID: 78628
RKDimages ID: 219506

catalog URL: http://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1902-H

information from the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) catalog

description: Christ Carrying the Cross is one of Jheronimus Bosch’s late works. The artist has stripped this intriguing composition, in which the struggle between good and evil is the central theme, of any sense of space. Christ’s head is surrounded by a dynamic group of grotesque “tronies” or faces. While the…

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