Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Crucifixion
Three crosses stand above a clustered company beneath a deeply clouded sky, with kneeling bodies and raised heads gathered below. Doré gives the upper field to darkness and broken cloud, making the height of the crosses conspicuous over the human figures at their base. Different positions within the company keep the foreground varied and inhabited. The printed caption identifies the crucifixion. The illustration presents the event at the scale of a landscape and a watching crowd, connecting the elevated bodies to the responses and proximity of those standing beneath them.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Crucifixion" [editorial title]. In The Bible Gallery, Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers. Undated Cassell & Company edition; one hundred illustrations with supplied descriptive letterpress, undated edition, Cassell & Company, Limited. Source scan leaf 365. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-364
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Complete plate reviewed against the scan; printed caption supplies subject. Crop excludes surrounding paper and separate caption without changing scan tone. Letterpress theology is not adopted as historical proof.
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Gustave Doré (design). The Crucifixion. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 365. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-364