Christ Carrying the Cross, Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch·Christ Carrying the Cross·c. 1510–35·Oil on panel·Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent↓

Hieronymus Bosch Netherlandish, c. 1450 – 1516

Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1510–35

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Christ's calm face, eyes closed, sits in a crush of leering, toothless and snarling heads that fill the panel edge to edge. There is no landscape and almost no bodies, only faces pressed together like caricatures of human wickedness. Long given to Bosch himself, it is now thought by many specialists, including the Bosch Research and Conservation Project, to be by a follower.

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At lower left, Saint Veronica holds her veil, miraculously marked with the face of Christ, while the jeering crowd presses in around her.

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