About ‘Christ Carrying the Cross, Jheronimus Bosch’
Christ Carrying the Cross, Jheronimus Bosch (1516)
Christ Carrying the Cross is one of Bosch's late works. The composition, stripped of any sense of space, centres on the struggle between good and evil. Christ's head sits precisely at the intersection of two diagonals - one formed by the cross beam, the other connecting Veronica's sudarium with the penitent thief - surrounded by a crowd of grotesque faces. These echo both the masks of passion plays and Leonardo's caricatures. In stark contrast, Christ's face remains serene amid the chaos. Though the attribution remains disputed, this is undoubtedly one of the most hallucinatory scenes in Western art.
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