One of the tattoos garnering the most attention is ... has a dual meaning of representing the five wounds of Christ’s crucifixion and the gospel being taken to every corner of the world.
In 1627 Francisco de Zurbarán, then living and working in the provincial Spanish town of Llerena, painted this Crucifixion for the monastery of San Pablo el Real in prosperous Seville. In the dimly ...
If so, it suggests a close relationship between the artists’ workshops. The coupling of an enthroned Virgin with a Crucifixion was common in the fourteenth century, but few Crucifixions from this ...