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Description: | Engravings are often made after paintings, but this painting is a copy of an engraving by the Flemish printmaker Aegidius Sadeler II. The episode represented is described in Luke 23.44, 'By now it was midday and there came a darkness over the whole land, which lasted until three in the afternoon; the sun was in eclipse'. As the eclipse occurs, Mary Magdalene clings to the base of the cross. The skull and bone in the foreground recall the name of the location of the Crucifixion, Golgotha, 'the place of the skull'. | Subjects: | figure; religion (Christ; Mary Magdalene; Crucifixion); townscape; animal (horse) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Sadeler, Aegidius, II (Flemish engraver, draftsman, and painter, ca. 1570-1629) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8630... | Go to resource |
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