The painter Francis Bacon on Crucifixion

Introduction Crucifixion is the subject that attests to the fragility, the futility, the horror and at the utter impossibility of life. Live is

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The Flagellation of Christ – τον δε Ιησουν φραγγελωσας

The flagellation of Christ is the beginning of the final turn to the End. But the End is not near

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Noli me tangere – Touch me

Tiziano Do not touch me Nolde Touch me Runge Do not touch me Bacon Touch me Do not touch me

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Agony in the Garden

“This night all of you will have your faith in me shaken, for it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd,

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Crucifixion I

As Easter approaches, I want to share with you some of my favourite depictions of the drama of Christ. I

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