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The Crucifixion
1457–59 · tempera sur bois (peuplier) (tempera on wood (poplar)) · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Christ hangs between two other crucified men over a pavement of split stone. At the left, Our Lady sinks among the women and Saint John stands apart with his hands clasped; at the right, soldiers bend over a round shield, casting lots for the seamless coat they would not cut. The Visual Commentary on Scripture recalls Augustine's reading of their game as grace, decided by no merit but God's secret judgment. Gregorio Correr commissioned Andrea Mantegna's altarpiece for San Zeno, and the Louvre records this scene as the centre of its predella. It was carried to Paris in 1798; two more predella scenes went to Tours in 1806; the main triptych, Finestre sull'Arte notes, went home to Verona in 1815. The coat was kept whole. The altarpiece is in three cities.
Sources: Arsartisticadventureofmankind (paraphrasing Lightbown/period reading) · Visual Commentary on Scripture, 'The Casting of Lots' · Cavallini to Veronese, entry on Andrea Mantegna · Musée du Louvre, Mantegna, 'La Crucifixion', INV 368 / MR 338. · John 19:23-24, Douay-Rheims (Challoner). · Finestre sull'Arte, 'Will France return to us three Mantegna panels stolen by Napoleon?'
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.
John 19:25 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)