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바이블엔명화 2020. 8. 13. 17:20

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 – 1770

Golgotha

oil on canvas (75 × 80 cm) — c. 1755

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo biography

This work is linked to John 19:38

 

Art and the Bible - John 19 - New Testament

John 19 1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, 3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. 4 Pilate theref

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Christ is still on his cross when the two criminals are taken down from theirs. In the foreground Mary has fainted. John the Evangelist, dressed in green, looks up to his dead master.

 

A group of men with a ladder approach. The first is Nicodemus, who had permission from Pilate to take away Christ's body.