The Crucifixion

Origin: Russia
Age: 2nd Half of the XIXth Century
Composition: Wooden frame, tempera on wood
Measures Cms: 63,5 X 50,0 X 2,5
In the Church of the Holy Tomb of Jerusalem, Adam’s chapel, it presents a crack in the rock. This crack is considered to be a testimony of the earthquake that describes the Gospel to Christ’s death. According to the legend there Adam’s skull was buried with three grains of the tree of the terrestrial paradise in the mouth, of which the Cross was born. The cross sprouts of the skull.