# The Crucifixion of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FERRARI, Gaudenzio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Sculptures and fresco ## Commentary On Sacro Monte sites of the Holy Land had been recreated in scenic groups of sculptures in chapels from the late fifteenth century onward to provide the faithful with experience of an imaginary pilgrimage. Ferrari's Journey of the Three Kings and Crucifixion of Christ date from the 1520s. The Crucifixion assembles, against a painted stage, a dense group of figures to which his painting lends a sculptural liveliness. The mounted good centurion, for example, who is holding up his club in front of the cross, has a precise pendant in Ferrari's Crucifixion in the Cappella della Maddalena in San Cristoforo, Vercelli. ## Related artworks - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Crucifixion of Christ]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Donor group]() - [High altar]() - [Lamentation of Christ]() - [Polyptych]() - [Scenes from the Legend of Mary Magdalene: Conversion of the Rulers of Marseilles]() - [Scenes from the Life of Mary]() - [Scenes from the Life of Mary: The Adoration of the Kings]() - [Scenes from the Life of Mary: The Annunciation and Birth of Christ]() - [Scenes from the Life of Mary: The Birth of Mary]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()