The Crucified Thief is the one surviving panel of a lost altarpiece, a fragment of a Crucifixion that has been lost.The thief's face is contorted with pain, and the wounds where the cords have cut into the flesh are rendered in an extraordinarily brutal manner. The Roman soldiers looking on, particularly the one whose curly hair is held back by a white band and who is placing one hand on his heart, are portrayed with a realism that was ...
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The Crucified Thief is the one surviving panel of a lost altarpiece, a fragment of a Crucifixion that has been lost.
The thief's face is contorted with pain, and the wounds where the cords have cut into the flesh are rendered in an extraordinarily brutal manner. The Roman soldiers looking on, particularly the one whose curly hair is held back by a white band and who is placing one hand on his heart, are portrayed with a realism that was at that time outstanding. In Robert Campin’s The Crucified Thief the Christ’s fellow prisoner on the cross is contorted with agony and suffering.
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