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Kruisdraging

Led out to be crucified, Jesus carries the cross toward Golgotha as the soldiers compel Simon of Cyrene to help bear it (Matthew 27). By the Dutch printmaker Crispijn van de Passe, held in the Rijksmuseum.

Kruisdraging by Crispijn van de Passe depicting Matthew 27
View full resolutionPublic domain via Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number RP-P-1907-3812.Source

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Portrait of Crispijn van de Passe

About Crispijn van de Passe

1564-1637 · Dutch

Crispijn van de Passe the Elder was a Dutch engraver and founder of a four-generation dynasty of printmakers; his biblical series — including the Liber Genesis and Life of Christ — circulated across Protestant and Catholic Europe alike.