About the artist:
A leading painter of the north Italian school, Girolamo di Romano, who during his lifetime came to be called Romanino, was born between 1484 and 1487 in Brescia, then under Venetian rule. Active as a painter of frescoes, altarpieces, portraits and private devotional pictures, Romanino worked in numerous cities across northern Italy, including Padua, Cremona, Trento and Brescia, which remained his chief residence over the course of his career.
The main subject of this painting needs no introduction. The title of the painting is "Christ on the Cross" and the face in the background belongs to an unnamed torturer.
But when I first saw this painting on today's edition of artdailynews, only the top half was visible. My first response was "Who is that man?"
Looking at the whole picture, the answer becomes very obvious. There is a crucifier and there is The Crucified.
But non-Christians could just as well say that there is yin and there is yang. And dreamers would say imagine a world without a crucifix, where there was no yin and it was all yang.
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