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The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen
ca. 1624–25 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 61 x 40 1/4 in. (154.9 x 102.2 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
This powerful image was probably painted for a Catholic "hidden church" in Ter Brugghen’s city of Utrecht, where Catholicism was tolerated but not encouraged. The artist, a Protestant, recaptures the ...
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