Christ Carrying the Cross, 1510 - 1515, Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, 83×59cm, ( Here Massijs, a leading artist in early 16th-century Antwerp, paints an intense picture of Jesus’s suffering. Jesus appears close to the foreground, connecting almost tangibly with the viewer: bloodied and bowed under the weight of the cross. This penetrating depiction helped worshippers empathise with Jesus’s pain. Dutch, The Netherlands .)

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Size: 3888px × 5226px
Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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