The Crucifixion
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Three dead men hang against the pale sky; only one was nailed. Christ's chest is stabbed with the lance; blood clings to the spear shaft and courses down his leg. The thieves are blindfolded and tied.
Below, the Virgin is covered almost completely with a blue cloak, inconsolable, attended by John the Evangelist. The turbaned woman beside her is not one of the Gospel's mourners: Miyako Sugiyama gives her as the Erythraean or Cumaean Sibyl, whom Augustine credited with foretelling the gall and the vinegar.
Alexi Worth found the difference in the thieves' hands: gray, from lack of circulation.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment', acc. 33.92ab · Alexi Worth on Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment (ca. 1435–40), The Brooklyn Rail, Critics Page, September 2015 · Miyako Sugiyama, 'Jan van Eyck's New York Diptych: A New Reading on the Skeleton of the Great Chasm', Arts 11, no. 1 (2022): article 4 · Augustine, De civitate Dei XVIII.23
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 12,029 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.