# Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIAZZETTA, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm ## Commentary Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves c. 1710 Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice This canvas counts among the artists's earliest works, realized before he had completely mastered the technique of preparing the support with red ocher and oil. Too much of the latter undermined the adhesiveness of the paint surface, which has flaked off and exposed the ocher ground, now turned a brownish colour. Based on a composition by Rubens, the work evinces stunning virtuosity in the handling of the three nude bodies, their torsioned attitudes the fruit of long and close anatomical study. ## Related artworks - [A Young Ensign]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Beggar Boy]() - [Idyll at the Coast]() - [Judith and Holofernes]() - [Martyrdom of St James]() - [Martyrdom of St James]() - [Mucius Scaevola before King Porsenna]() - [Peasant Girl]() - [Rebecca at the Well]() - [Shepherd Boy]() - [St John the Baptist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()