Where to See De Kruisdraging: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Quentin Matsys executed this scene of Christ carrying the cross, known in Dutch as "De Kruisdraging." The suffering Christ struggles under the weight while surrounded by tormentors.

Matsys was a leading painter of the Antwerp school. This work is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

You can see it at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Quentin Matsys created it. Matsys was a leading painter of the Antwerp school.

Quentin Matsys, a Flemish Renaissance painter You can see it at Rijksmuseum. Matsys was a leading painter of the Antwerp school.

Quentin Matsys was a Flemish painter who bridged late medieval and Renaissance art in Antwerp. His expressive faces and moral subjects influenced both Dürer and later Flemish genre painters.

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