# The Crucifixion \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TINTORETTO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The models for this monumental Crucifixion are to be sought outside Venice, in <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/baldung/4/0crucifi.html'\)" href="/html/b/baldung/4/0crucifi.html">German graphic prints,</A> and in the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/a/altichie/crucif.html'\)" href="/html/a/altichie/crucif.html">Paduan frescoes</A> of Altichiero and Giusto de Menabuoi. In the good and bad thieves to the left and right of Christ, who is already crucified, Tintoretto depicts different phases of the execution. He shows the body of Christ surrounded by a great aureole, so that it seems to have separated from the Cross, thus giving the impression that Tintoretto is bringing the Redeemer out of the area of the picture itself and into the viewer's space. Hovering over the boardroom gallery of the charitable Confraternity of St Roch, Christ speaks as the representative of suffering mankind: "I thirst!" ## Related artworks - [A Philosopher \(detail\)]() - [A Philosopher]() - [Allegory of Faith]() - [Allegory of Fortune \(Felicità\)]() - [Allegory of Generosity]() - [Allegory of Goodness]() - [Allegory of Happiness]() - [Allegory of the Scuola della Carità]() - [Allegory of the Scuola della Misericordia]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Marco]() - [Allegory of the Scuola di San Teodoro]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()