This painting represents an episode from the Bible: as Christ utters His final words ('Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit'), a Roman centurion experiences a religious conversion, recognizing that 'Truly this man was the Son of God'. Both phrases are inscribed here in German, rather than in the
This painting represents an episode from the Bible: as Christ utters His final words ('Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit'), a Roman centurion experiences a religious conversion, recognizing that 'Truly this man was the Son of God'. Both phrases are inscribed here in German, rather than in the traditional Latin.
The coat of arms, however, has not been positively identified.
[http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/43516] (accessed 2016-07-07)
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder | [http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/43516] (accessed 2016-07-07) |
- Production date
- 1538
Production date
1538 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 61.6 x 42.4 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 61.6 x 42.4 cm
Dimensions including frame: 71.4 x 52.7 cm
[http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/43516] (accessed 2016-07-07)
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia at the bottom right: winged serpent (with dropped wings) and dated '1538', in yellow paint
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia at the bottom right: winged serpent (with dropped wings) and dated '1538', in yellow paint
- Inscriptions and Labels
- above the cross: 'VATER IN DEIN HENDT BEFIEL ICH MEIN GAIST'
- beside the centurion:
'WARLICH DIESER MENSCH IST GOTTES SVN …Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- above the cross:
'VATER IN DEIN HENDT BEFIEL ICH MEIN GAIST'
- beside the centurion:
'WARLICH DIESER MENSCH IST GOTTES SVN GEWEST'
- Owner
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Repository
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Location
- New Haven
- CDA ID
- US_YUAG_1959-15-23
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR378B
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/US_YUAG_1959-15-23/