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2 unusual facts about Crucifixion


Constantino Brumidi

Subsequently he undertook more important works, the principal being a fresco of the Crucifixion in St. Stephen's Church, for which he also executed a Martyrdom of St. Stephen and an Assumption of Mary.

Palace of the Governors

He remembered later in life that it was at night, during a severe thunderstorm in the spring of 1879, after returning from a tense meeting with Billy the Kid in Lincoln County, when he wrote the climactic Crucifixion scenes of the novel.


1865 in art

Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris - The Crucifixion (stained-glass window for chapel of St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

All Saints Church, Ulcombe

The walls feature wall paintings in various locations including St Michael defeating Satan, a number of crucifixions and Dives and Lazarus.

Ardboe High Cross

The west face of the head of the Cross is carved of scenes from the Passion of Christ, and also the Crucifixion.

Barabas the Jew

He is named after Barabbas, the Jewish revolutionary who was released from prison and pardoned from crucifixion in place of Jesus in the Bible (Matthew 27 v. 16-21, 26, Mark 16 v. 7-15).

Basilica of St. Louis, King of France

Built in Greek Revival style, the church is noted for its marble altars, a painting of Saint Louis venerating the Crown of Thorns given by Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre, and an accurate copy of the painting of the Crucifixion by Diego Velázquez installed in the church in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cusco

Within the sacristy, a large, dark painting of the crucifixion is commonly attributed to the Dutch artist, Anthony van Dyck.

Church of Our Saviour, Esbjerg

In 1929, the church was decorated with frescos by Ole Søndergaard: the Paschal Lamb on the apse vault, Jesus blessing the children on the north wall, the Return of the Prodigal Son on the south wall and the Crucifixion on the chancel arch with groups of people on either side.

Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness

The Cleghorn Lakes offer occasional spring wildflower displays, and the Crucifixion Thorn (Castela emoryi) shrub has been found near the eastern edge of the wilderness boundary.

Crucifixion darkness

A number of accounts in apocryphal literature build on the synoptic accounts of the crucifixion darkness.

Crucifixion of Saint Peter

Crucifixion of Saint Peter refers to the death of Saint Peter

Crucifixion thorn

Holacantha stewartii (Stewart crucifixion-thorn), a shrub or small tree in the family Simaroubaceae native to the Chihuahuan Desert

Death of God theology

Most notably, Blake refused to view the crucifixion of Jesus as a simple bodily death, and rather, saw in this event a kenosis, a self-emptying of God.

Exterior sculpture of Guildford Cathedral

Here the large sculpture above the round window is to the design of Eric Gill and portrays the crucifixion, illustrating the text- “The eternal god is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms” Eric Gill died before he was able to carve this piece and the carving was done by Anthony Foster Gill’s assistant.

Francesco Carboni

Among his works are noted : a Crucifixion, with St. Theresa and Maggiore, and other Saints for S. Martina in Bologna; an Entombment of Christ for S. Paolo; and for the Servite fathers, a Decollation of St. John the Baptist.

Giovanni Bellini

Crucifixion (1501–1503) - Oil on panel, 81 x 49 cm, The Albert Gallery, Prato

Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli

He also painted two altarpieces, a Crucifixion and a Circumcision (attributed) for the Sanctuary della Madonna del Pianto in Ono Degno, near Pertica Bassa.

Grade I listed churches in Shropshire

The east window contains stained glass dated 1893 by Kempe depicting the Crucifixion.

Gunfight at Carnegie Hall

There is no talk of a complete release of either show, though an additional cover, Chuck Berry's "School Days" appeared on the 1997 British anthology, American Troubadour and an acoustic version of "Crucifixion" was released on the 1976 compilation Chords Of Fame and later on the 1997 box set Farewells & Fantasies.

Hugh J. Schonfield

In 1965 he published the controversial The Passover Plot, a book whose thesis is that the Crucifixion was part of a larger, conscious attempt by Jesus to fulfill the Messianic expectations rampant in his time, and that the plan went unexpectedly wrong.

Jacques de Baerze

The iconography of the two artists' elements was designed to complement each other, with a painted sequence of scenes from the Infancy of Christ and within, carved scenes of the Adoration of the Magi, the Crucifixion in the centre, and the Entombment of Christ, flanked by saints on the inside of the side-panels.

Jakob Heller

Heller is best remembered today as a patron of the arts, as he commissioned the Heller Altarpiece from Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald, and a large sculpture of the crucifixion from Hans Backoffen.

Jehohanan

In 1985, Joe Zias, curator of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, and Dr. Eliezer Sekeles, from the Hadassah Medical Center, reexamined the crucifixion remains.

La Matanza de Acentejo

Currently under construction is a scale replica of the interior of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (the place where according to Christian tradition, was taken the body of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion), the replica will be located in the plaza of El Salvador's municipality.

Loznani

The church also hold magnificent medieval Byzantine art full of beautiful icons of Mary, the burial of the Virgin Mary, the crucifixion, and many saints and martyrs.

Malmesbury Market Cross

A carving in relief of the Crucifixion (visible right of centre in the illustration) and figures of several saints have survived the Reformation on the open lantern, although the lower niches for figures are now empty.

Martin H. Glynn

Glynn's article "The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop!" was published in the October 31, 1919, issue of The American Hebrew; in it he lamented the poor conditions for European Jews after World War I.

Michel Onfray

Macquarie University historian John Dickson has pointed out that Philo of Alexandria, writing about the time of Jesus, tells us that sometimes the Romans handed the bodies of crucifixion victims over to family members for proper burial.

Nasova

The village chapel to the east of the village on the road towards Lešane was built in 1928 to house the original free-standing sculptures of the crucifixion, erected in 1683.

Palazzo degli Alberti

Renaissance paintings include a Madonna with Child, a youth work by Filippo Lippi (c. 1436), a Crucifixion by Giovanni Bellini (c. 1505), as well as works by Santi di Tito.

Passing Through Gethsemane

The title is derived from the garden of Gethsemane in which Jesus waited and prayed before he was arrested and crucified, as Brother Edward recounts in the episode.

Pavel Svedomsky

Working in the St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev, Svedosmky painted the northern and southern naves of the cathedral, creating six scenes from the life of Jesus: The Resurrection of Lazarus, The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, The Last Supper, The Agony in the Garden, The Trial of Pilate, The Crucifixion and The Ascension.

Salimbeni

The artistic careers of Lorenzo Salimbeni (San Severino Marche 1374-c1418) and Jacopo Salimbeni (c.1370/80-after 1426) brothers spanned in both relatively narrow area and short time, from the triptych painting of the altarpiece of the Mystical Marriage by Lorenzo alone in 1400 (Pinacoteca Civica, San Severino) to the frescoes of the Crucifixion and Scenes from the Life of St John the Baptist in the Oratory of San Giovanni, Urbino, in 1416.

San Samuele, Venice

The cycle depicts eight Sibyls, Greek and Roman female seers who were believed to have predicted events in the life of Christ such as the Annunciation, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.

Sansepolcro Cathedral

Works of art in the interior include the Incredulity of St. Thomas by Santi di Tito (1576–1577), a Crucifixion fresco by Bartolomeo della Gatta (1486), an Adoration of the Shepherd by Durante Alberti and, at the high altar, the Resurrection Polyptych by Niccolò di Segna (c. 1348).

Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo

Over the tapestry of the Crucifixion (executed in Antwerp on Ludwig van Schoor's cartoons, 1698) is a painting by Luca Giordano, with the Passage of the Red Sea (1691).

Sanya Mateyas

In 2004, Sanya Mateyas was one of the composers and performers in I Thirst: The Crucifixion Story - a live performance recorded to DVD, which was inspired by Jesus' crucifixion.

St Mary's Church, Cilcain

The east window contains stained glass which is said to be dated 1546; it depicts the Crucifixion.

St Patrick's Church, Liverpool

On the east wall above the altar is a large painting of the Crucifixion executed in about 1834 by Nicaise de Keyser of Antwerp.

St. Mark's Church, Vrba

An image of St Christopher and one of the Crucifixion date to the early 15th century and are in the style of the Gorizia school.

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

In connection with its negation of spatial depth by compressing figures into the foreground, the early Florentine Mannerists—Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo and Parmigianino—are mentioned, as well two paintings by Tintoretto: the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Lazarus, the latter because of the horizontal row of spectators behind the miracle.

The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name

It is written from the viewpoint of a Roman centurion who is graphically described having sex with Jesus after his crucifixion, and also claims that Jesus had had sex with numerous disciples, guards, and even Pontius Pilate.

The Power of Myth

The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang, the correlation between the earth or mother Goddess and images of fertility (the sacred feminine).

Themes in Italian Renaissance painting

In Giovanni Bellini's Deposition the artist, while not attempting to suggest the brutal realities of the crucifixion, has attempted to give the impression of death.

Toi Derricotte

During her years at Detroit's Girls Catholic Central High School, Derricotte recounts a religious education that she felt was steeped in images of death and punishment, a Catholicism that, according to the poet, morbidly paraded "the crucifixion, saints, martyrs in the Old Testament and the prayers of the Mass."

Triclavianism

The three nails, as a symbol for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, are also used on the coats of arms of Drahovce, Slovakia, Saint Saviour, Jersey, St. Clement Parish, Ottawa and in the seal of the Society of Jesus.

Wörth am Main

-Nikolaus-Kirche, built in Romanesque Revival style from the year 1898, with a cross altar, Crucifixion group and Passion image

Zounds

The name of the band is derived from the old English minced oath coined by William Shakespeare: "zounds", which is a contraction of "God's wounds", referring to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, formerly used as a mildly blasphemous oath.


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