The crucifixion of Jesus is one of the most illustrated events in human history. For centuries, artists have reimagined it as a form of remembrance and as a means to convey the story of brutality and ...

On April 12, 1971, one day after Easter Sunday, a 23-year-old Brazilian artist in residence at Bates showed one of his newest works to a gathering of fellow artists: a strikingly tall wood sculpture ...

Images of Jesus on the cross no longer command auction prices. Paintings and sculptures of what may be the most iconic scene in the history of art—the crucifixion of Jesus—are no longer commanding the ...

“Crucifixion,” a wall-sized oil painting created by Renato Guttuso (1911-87), one of Italy’s finest modern painters, is widely recognized as a 20th-century masterpiece today. But a year after the ...

The Jewishness of Jesus has seldom been rendered more clearly in art than in the crucifixion scenes of Marc Chagall. Although he was not the only Jewish artist to focus on the crucifixion, Chagall ...

It is no easy task to convert catastrophe into beauty, especially in the visual arts. With brushes and palette alone, can a painter confer upon the tragedy of Christ’s death sadness rather than horror ...

Jesus is laying on the cross in the painting, his arms splayed wide as one of his executioners hammers a nail into his hand. The artists who created it — selecting the caramel color of Christ's skin ...

A Tampa Bay Times column has called for Christian communities to re‑examine religious imagery, urging a move from graphic crucifixion depictions toward uplifting resurrection portrayals. The writer ...