The Crucifixion
The original, as its museum records it
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The men at the edges are busy with something else. The Accademia describes a composition banked at left by the centurion, his standard shaken by the wind, and at right by soldiers throwing dice for Christ's garments — gambling in the same frame as his death. Behind them a choir of figures caught in light, not named, sketched rapidly.
John says they cast lots rather than cut the coat, woven whole from the top. Cyprian read that seamlessness as the Church, which may not be torn. The men least interested in the death are the ones keeping anything whole.
Sources: Gallerie dell'Accademia object page · Mark 15:39, and Matthew 27:54 / Luke 23:47 — the centurion's confession at the moment of death. Named here rather than cited in the prose, because this work's scene.ref is John 19:25. · Cyprian of Carthage, 'De ecclesiae catholicae unitate' (On the Unity of the Church), 7. · John 19:23-24, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
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), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 8,270 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.