Christ Carrying the Cross. 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.

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Photo credit: © BTEU/RKMLGE / Alamy / Afripics
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