The Raising of the Cross
At Golgotha the soldiers raise the cross upright with Christ nailed upon it, lifting him between heaven and earth (Matthew 27). An oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1633).
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About Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 · Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker whose biblical works — in oil, panel, and etching — remain among the most psychologically searching treatments of Scripture in Western art.