While Crucifixion itself was not a bloody form of death, blood in connection with it is taken as the sin offering.

Michelangelo's Pietà ( Michelangelo ) | Pietà, a depiction of the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Saint Mary | Mary after the Crucifixion, was carved in 1499, when the sculptor was 24 years old.

While it may seem as if Bearden was emphasizing the Biblical interpretations of Christ and the Crucifixion, he was actually focusing on the spiritual intent.

Crucifixion was in use at a comparatively high rate among the Seleucids, Carthaginians, and Romans from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD.

Crucifixion was often performed to terrorize and dissuade its witnesses from perpetrating particularly heinous crimes.

Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful ( hence the term excruciating, literally " out of crucifying "), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal.

An experiment that was the subject of a documentary on the National Geographic Channel's Quest For Truth: The Crucifixion, showed that a person can be suspended by the palm of the hand.

Crucifixion ( or impalement ), in one form or another, was used by Persians, Carthaginians, Macedonians, and Romans.

Crucifixion was used for slaves, pirates, and enemies of the state.

Crucifixion was typically carried out by specialized teams, consisting of a commanding centurion and four soldiers.

Crucifixion was used as a punishment for prisoners of war during World War II.

Dalí was also fascinated by DNA and the tesseract ( a 4-dimensional cube ); an unfolding of a hypercube is featured in the painting Crucifixion ( Corpus Hypercubus ).

The poem may also have been inspired by the legends of the Wandering Jew, who was forced to wander the earth until Judgement Day for taunting Jesus on the day of the Crucifixion, and of the Flying Dutchman.

Michelangelo was also commissioned by the Pope to paint the ' Crucifixion of St. Peter ' and the ' Conversion of St. Paul ' ( 1542 – 50 ), his last frescoes, in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican.

Joseph of Arimathea was, according to the Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after Jesus ' Crucifixion.

Based on the details of the Canonical gospels, the Crucifixion of Jesus was most likely to have been on a Friday ().

After Chagall returned to New York in 1943, however, current events began to interest him more, and this was represented by his art, where he painted subjects including the Crucifixion and scenes of war.

Bede explains how each of the four Evangelists was represented by their own symbol: Matthew was the man, representing the human Christ, Mark was the lion, symbolizing the triumphant Christ of the Resurrection, Luke was the calf, symbolizing the sacrificial victim of the Crucifixion, and John was the eagle, symbolizing Christ ’ s second coming ( The British Library Board ).

Here in painted an eleven-panel altarpiece for the Freiburg Cathedral, still intact today, depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin, including, The Annunciation, The Visitation, The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt, The Crucifixion, Four Saints and The Donators.

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

* Crucifixion translated into Bengali by Malay Roy Choudhury

Palm Sunday commemorates the triumphal entrance of Christ into Jerusalem ( Matthew 21: 1-9 ), when palm branches were placed in His path, before His arrest on Holy Thursday and His Crucifixion on Good Friday.

Before the Sixth Gospel () which first mentions the Crucifixion, the priest carries a large cross into the center of the church, where it is set upright and all the faithful come forward to venerate it.

In the 19th century, with the exception of John Stainer's The Crucifixion ( 1887 ), Passion settings were less popular, but in the 20th century, they have again come into fashion.

The frescoes on the other walls represent scenes from the lives of Christ and Saint Peter on the entry wall ( mostly ruined due to the later installation of a choir ), The Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Allegory of Christian Learning on the left wall, and the large " Crucifixion with the Way to Calvalry and the Descent into Limbo " on the archway of the altar wall.

The upper part has nine panels dramatic showing scenes from the New Testament, carved in white marble with a chiaroscuro effect and separated by figures of prophets: Annunciation, Massacre of the Innocents, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Flight into Egypt, Crucifixion, and two panels of the Last Judgement.

The scenes depicted are the Annunciation, Visitation, the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi, the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, the Baptism of Jesus, the Temptation of Christ, the Transfiguration, the Raising of Lazarus, the Triumphal entry into Jerusalem ( see illustration ), the Last Supper, the Washing of the Feet, the Agony in the Garden, the Betrayal of Judas, the Crucifixion of Jesus, the Descent from the Cross, the Lamentation, the Harrowing of Hell, the Three Marys at the Tomb, and the Deesis.

The surface of the cross is divided into panels, showing scenes including the Crucifixion, the Last Judgement, and Christ in the Tomb.

The altar in the chancel is recessed into polygonal vaulted apse in the Byzantine style with stone reredos depicting the Crucifixion.

Another method is by placing a scene from a religious narrative in a New Zealand setting ( for example Crucifixion according to Saint Mark ), and bringing the Bible into the contemporary world.

The themes of the north wall are the Finding of the Child Jesus at the Temple, the Marriage Feast of Cana, the Crucifixion of Jesus, Pentecost, the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, and the Coronation of Mary, Queen of Heaven.

For Christians of the East the diskos symbolises the Virgin Mary, who received Christ into her womb, and gave him birth ; and also the Tomb of Christ which received his body after the Crucifixion, and from which he resurrected.

According to tradition, Lanciano is also the birthplace of Longinus the Roman centurion who thrust his spear into Jesus ' side during the Crucifixion: Lanciano in Italian means " of the Spear "

The most esteemed works of Lippi as a painter are a Crucifixion in the Uffizi gallery at Florence, and a Triumph of David which he executed for the salon of Angiolo Galli, introducing into it portraits of the seventeen children of the owner.

" And during the Crucifixion scene, he declared, " This is sure to offend the Jews.

Medieval drama sometimes portrayed Christ leading a dramatic assault — The Harrowing of Hell — during the three days between the Crucifixion and the resurrection.

These faithful followers of Jesus stood at Golgotha during the Crucifixion of Jesus and later came to his tomb early on the morning following the Sabbath with myrrh ( expensive oil ), according to the Jewish tradition, to anoint their Lord's body.

The various words of Jesus during the Crucifixion are collected from the different Gospel accounts as the Last Words of Christ.

During his lifetime, however, he was more esteemed for a long Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great, the Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni, a hexameter epic, full of anachronisms ; he depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus as having already taken place during the days of Alexander the Great.

A Georgian Jew called Elias was said to be in Jerusalem during the Crucifixion and brought Jesus ' robe back with him to Georgia.

It also puts a whole new light on the actions of Jesus during the Crucifixion.

Isabel Cathedral, the Santo Entierro is a procession of Christ's images, many of the Stations of the Cross along the city's main streets, depicting his last hours before, during, and after the Crucifixion.

Sir John Stainer ( 6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901 ) was an English composer and organist whose music, though not generally much performed today ( with the exception of The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in many Protestant churches of the former British Empire ), was very popular during his lifetime.

He appears three times: the first is when he visits Jesus one night to listen to his teachings (); the second is when he states the law concerning the arrest of Jesus during the Feast of Tabernacles (); and the last follows the Crucifixion, when he assists Joseph of Arimathea in preparing the corpse of Jesus for burial ().

Crucifixion ( or Haritsuke ) was a form of punishment or torture that the Japanese sometimes used against prisoners during the war.

The devotion fits on the Catholic tradition to venerate the Virgin Mary particularly on Saturdays, which originated in the scriptural account that, as the Mother of Jesus Christ, her heart was to be pierced with a sword, as prophesied during the presentation of Jesus in the temple ; such sword was the bitter sorrow during the Crucifixion of Jesus ( which Catholic devotees understand as the union of the Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Heart of Jesus -- see Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Apparitions ).

It was dipped in vinegar ( or in some translations sour wine ) and offered to Christ to drink during the Crucifixion, according to Matthew 27: 48 ; Mark 15: 36 ; and John 19: 29.

In the movie, Abby-who is soon to give birth-discovers that she is actually the reborn woman some identify as Seraphia, the woman who offered Christ water during the Crucifixion but was turned away by Cartaphilus.

Schonfield uses this theory to account for the Beloved Disciple's absence in the north and accounts of Jesus ' ministry in the Temple during the week before the Crucifixion.

" Both are references to the Last Supper and The Crucifixion involving Judas ' betrayal of Jesus and of Peter denying three times that he knows Jesus during his arrest.

* Crucifixion ( destroyed during World War II )

Or early martyrs of the church like Thecla or those who walked very closely with Christ and were present during the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Pentecost like Mary Mother of Christ, Mary Magdalene, and Mary Salome.

The piece takes as its overarching theme the concepts of sacrifice and offering: the sacrifice of Christ during the Crucifixion, God ’ s offering in creating the Earth, the sacrifice of the performer to the tone, the sacrifice of the composer to the art, and the sacrifice of the main musical theme to disintegration and, later, reconstruction.