2-999-328 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Christ carrying the cross, 1475. Single leaf from a short work on the Passion of Christ, created in southern Germany. This page contains illustrations to the Sext and None segments of De Septem Stationibus Passionis Christi. This anonymous text, written in rhymed verse, was often appended to the Speculum Humanae Salvationis, which may have ultimately been the context for this leaf. The effect of the images, written and illuminated on paper with heavy ink outlines and washes of colour, closely resembles that of coloured woodcuts from the same period.