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Painting of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, crowned with thorns, seated half-nude with a white cloth, a halo above him and crosses and rocky hills behind.

Christ as the Man of Sorrows

Christ sits half-draped in a white cloth, crowned with thorns and framed by a pale halo, his wounds visible on his side and hands. A cross and a rocky landscape under a cloudy blue sky fill the background, in a painted Northern Renaissance style.

Artist
atelier van Maarten van Heemskerck
Date
1545-1550
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3143 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1550.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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