Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Close of the Crucifixion
Three dark crosses rise against a changing sky while a scattered crowd turns, kneels and moves across the rough ground below them. Doré lets the open atmosphere brighten behind the silhouettes, while the foreground remains heavily worked with bodies and uneven terrain. The composition keeps the crosses visible as fixed points within a scene whose lower company appears unsettled. The printed caption identifies the close of the crucifixion. The design follows the preceding event through its aftermath, presenting the gathering’s disturbance and the altered light as parts of the narrative’s continuing visual sequence.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Close of 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 369. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-368
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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 Close of the Crucifixion. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 369. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-368