# The Crucifixion [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DAVID, Gerard]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 53 x 38 cm ## Commentary The Crucifixion c. 1495 Oil on wood, 53 x 38 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this poignant image, the Crucifixion is presented as an enactment of the written word due to the inclusion of St Jerome. The Church Father is shown as somewhat detached from the event at hand, apparently reading about it from his translation of the Bible. True to the account of the Gospels, David has provided an appropriate sense of time and space. The sky is darkened at the moment of Christ's death on Golgotha \(literally, "the place of the skull"\), and the holy city of Jerusalem with its prominent Church of the Dome of the Rock forms the backdrop. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Kings \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Kings]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Altarpiece of St Michael]() - [Altarpiece of St Michael]() - [Breviary of Isabella of Castile]() - [Canon Bernardinus de Salviatis with Three Saints]() - [Christ Nailed to the Cross]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Forest scenes]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()