The artist called the eight-foot-tall painting of Jesus on the cross one of his "very best." The New Yorker called it “his ...

From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:54-55: When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake ... Under the Cross stand Mary, his Mother, the sister ...

and they forced him to carry the cross.” “They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall [a bitter ...