The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, ca. 1624–25, Oil on canvas, 61 x 40 1/4 in. (154.9 x 102.2 cm), Paintings, Hendrick ter Brugghen (Dutch, The Hague? 1588–1629 Utrecht), 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 devotional intensity of earlier German and Dutch altarpieces in his stark composition and in the angular figure of Christ
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