Where to See Cruciferous Christus: Kunsthistorisches Museum

Italian painter Bernardino Luini painted this image of Christ bearing the cross. The Milanese painter followed the style of Leonardo da Vinci, with soft modeling and gentle expressions. His religious works have a tender, devotional quality.

Luini was one of the most successful painters in Renaissance Milan. This painting is held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

You can see it at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. Bernardino Luini created it. The Milanese painter followed the style of Leonardo da Vinci, with soft modeling and gentle expressions.

Bernardino Luini created this devotional work in Leonardo's style You can see it at Kunsthistorisches Museum. The Milanese painter followed the style of Leonardo da Vinci, with soft modeling and gentle expressions.

It means "cross-bearing." Luini shows Christ carrying the cross with the gentle, restrained emotion characteristic of his Leonardesque style, avoiding graphic violence in favor of quiet suffering.

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