The Crucifixion of the Lord. Painting
1700 - 1800
The author is unknown.
18th c.
Irshava.
Canvas, oil
Brief description
The picture was tranferred to the Transcarpathian Local History Museum in 1974 from Irshava.
The painting depicts a vanitas (Latin vanitas, popularly called "vanity"), popular in Western European art, depicting a flower, a skull and an hourglass.
A local artist was able to combine the crucifixion with still life symbols in the vanitas spirit, testifying to the significant influence of Western European art traditions on local craftsmen. The fact that we are dealing with a local artist here is evidenced by the inscription above the crucified Christ "IN TSI", as well as the inscription of 6 verse 38 of the psalm, which is performed in Church Slavonic and Hungarian. Also in the picture are Latin inscriptions.
