Crucifixion

This Crucifixion is the most interesting of the Flemish works in the Museum, a small panel painting traditionally attributed to Lucas van Leyden, but that seems to refer to an undefined artistic personality who acts at the same time as the aforementioned in the workshop of his master Cornelis Engelbrechtsen. The composition has unique pictorial and iconographic qualities: the long cortege of figures descending from Calvary includes a cardinal of the Roman church, alluding to the author's Protestant stance. Among the soldiers in colorful helmets appears a figure who imitates the classical pose of Silenus riding his donkey. In the foreground, among characters always characterized by grotesque deformations of Boschian origin, a scene of brawl opens decisively to the future genre painting of the Netherlands.