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| Keywords: Peter Gertner - Crucifixion - Walters 37246.jpg This is the only identified religious painting by Peter Gertner who was best known as a portrait artist Here he uses the skills he honed as a portraitist to introduce distinctive details of costumes facial expressions and gestures for both the historical and contemporary figures gathered beneath the Cross The crowd includes men of many origins Jewish Turkish German and African This diversity would both intrigue the viewer and remind him or her of the universal message of the scene Gertner's monogram consists of a spade with his initials It is a play on his name a variation on gardener in German 1537 Renaissance oil on panel cm 68 8 96 8 accession number 37 246 3122 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Nuremburg Germany Walters Art Museum license 2D Peter Gertner Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings of Jesus Christ in the United States 16th-century paintings of the Crucifixion of Christ 1537 paintings 16th-century oil on panel paintings in the United States 16th-century religious paintings in the United States 1530s paintings from Germany 1530s paintings in the United States Dice for Christ's Robe 1530s religious paintings | ||||
