# Crucifixion and Scenes from the Life of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LUINI, Bernardino]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The partition in Santa Maria degli Angeli in Lugano was frescoed in 1529 by Bernardino Luini. In contrast to early examples, Luini unites the entire wall into a single picture plane. To achieve a huge, overwhelming scenographic effect, Luini relinquished any division of the wall into small parts. The view looks through an illusionistic architectural frame to an enormous, crowded panorama of the Crucifixion. In the foreground, the crosses, Christ's death, and reactions of people push right up to the viewer, as if to the edge of a stage. Small, separate subsidiary scenes are arranged in the background landscape. In a symmetrical arrangement, three episodes on the left that preceded the Crucifixion are contrasted with three episodes on the right that followed Christ's death. ## Related artworks - [A Female Martyr]() - [Crucifixion and Scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Girls Bathing]() - [Holy Family with the Infant St John]() - [Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and the Lamb]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara \(detail\)]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara]() - [Madonna in the Rose Garden]() - [Madonna of the Carnation]() - [Madonna with Child and the Young St John]() - [Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()