Christ on the Cross with Mary and St John

Christ on the Cross with Mary and St John
Year	c.1443-1445
Location	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Christ on the Cross with Mary and St John is a c.1443-1445 altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.^[1] The central scene shows the Crucifixion of Jesus, with the Virgin Mary clinging to the foot of the cross, John the Evangelist comforting her and the painting's two donors kneeling to the right. On the left hand side panel is Mary Magdalene, whilst on the right side panel is St Veronica. A unified landscape background across all three panels shows Jerusalem in the distance.

See also

• List of works by Rogier van der Weyden

References

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Rogier van der Weyden

List of works

Single religious
works

• Virgin and Child Enthroned (c. 1430–1432)
• The Madonna Standing (c. 1430–1432)
• The Magdalen Reading (fragment, c. 1435–1438)
• Durán Madonna (c. 1435–1438)
• The Descent from the Cross (c. 1435–1438)
• Virgin and Child with Saints (c. 1435–1438)
• Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (c. 1435–1440)
• St Hubert Altarpiece (c. late 1430s)
• Christ on the Cross with Mary and St John (c. 1440)
• Pietà (c. 1441)
• Visitation (c. 1445)
• St Jerome and the Lion (c. 1450–1465)
• Virgin and Child (c. 1460)
• Lamentation of Christ (c. 1460–1463)
• Medici Madonna (c. 1460–1464)

Portraits

• Portrait of a Woman (c. 1435)
• Portrait of a Young Woman (c. 1440–1445)
• Portrait of Isabella of Portugal (c. 1445–1450)
• Portrait of Antoine, 'Grand Bâtard' of Burgundy (c. 1460)
• Portrait of Francesco d'Este (c. 1460)
• Portrait of a Lady (c. 1460)
• Portrait of Jean Gros (c. 1460–1464)
• Portrait of John I, Duke of Cleves

Diptychs

• Diptych of Jeanne of France (c. 1452–1470)
• Crucifixion Diptych (c. 1464–1465)
• Diptych of Philip de Croÿ with The Virgin and Child (c. 1460)

Triptychs

• Annunciation Triptych (c. 1434)
• Miraflores Altarpiece (c. 1442–1445)
• Seven Sacraments Altarpiece (c. 1448)
• Beaune Altarpiece (c. 1445–1450)
• Bladelin Altarpiece (c. 1450)
• The Braque Triptych (c. 1452)
• Saint Columba Altarpiece (c. 1455)
• St John Altarpiece (c. 1455)

Civic

• The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald (c. 1450)

Miniature

• Jean Wauquelin presenting his 'Chroniques de Hainaut' to Philip the Good (1447–1448)

Embroidery

• Fragments of a Cope with the Seven Sacraments

Workshop

• Portrait of Philip the Good (after 1450)
• Portrait of Charles the Bold (1460)