The Crucifixion With The Virgin And St. John

Hendrick ter Brugghen's The Crucifixion With The Virgin And St. John is a powerful religious painting created around 1625, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This Baroque artwork was likely made as an altarpiece for a secret Catholic shrine in the Calvinist Dutch United Provinces, probably Utrecht. Notably rediscovered in 1956 in a bombed church in South Hackney, London, it was then unknown but recognized as an important example of Utrecht Caravaggism. The painting vividly captures the emotional intensity characteristic of Baroque art, emphasizing dramatic light and shadow to enhance its spiritual narrative.