Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John [SEP] collection
Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John
Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John by Hendrick ter Brugghen is an oil painting, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It was probably painted in about 1625 as an altarpiece for a Catholic "schuilkerk", a "hidden church" or "church in the attic", in the Calvinist Dutch United Provinces, probably Utrecht. When discovered in a bombed out church in South Hackney, London in 1956, it was unknown, but by the time it
, St. James, the priest da Ponte in front of the Virgin", below right a small painting "The crucifixion between the Virgin and St. John"
On the wall facing "Elijah Gate fed by the angel", follows: "The Manna Collection", and: "The Bronze Serpent" (1575)
The whole is by Palma the Younger.
Works of art.
- Francesco Bassano ("Madonna in Glory" and "St John the Baptist preaching" in the new sacristy, the