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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crucifixion
noun
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▪ All of the art is religious, most of it bloody with crucifixion and crosses of thorns.
▪ For the community of disciples the crucifixion was not the end.
▪ He would show the Catholic that the Church is nothing without the Word spoken in the crucifixion.
▪ On the inside, be sure to find the fresco of the crucifixion on the front wall.
▪ Parker wished more time, more, with the boy; this almost crucifixion, to feast his eyes.
▪ The current real rates of seven percent amount to economic crucifixion at this stage of the cycle.
▪ This pray is set towards the end of his time with them on earth but before the crucifixion.
▪ Throughout her journey, she is associated with images of crucifixion and martyrdom.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crucifixion

Crucifixion \Cru`ci*fix"ion\ (kr?`s?-f?k"sh?n), n.

  1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

  2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.

  3. Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.

    Do ye prove What crucifixions are in love?
    --Herrick.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crucifixion

early 15c., from Late Latin crucifixionem (nominative crucifixio), noun of action from past participle stem of crucifigere "kill by crucifixion; fasten to a cross" (see crucify).

Wiktionary
crucifixion

n. 1 An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead. 2 (''absolute use, often capitalized: The '''Crucifixion''''') The death on the Cross of Christ. 3 (context figuratively English) An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.

WordNet
crucifixion
  1. n. the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross

  2. the death of Jesus on the cross

  3. the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering [syn: excruciation]

Wikipedia
Crucifixion

Crucifixion is a historical method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang for several days until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It is principally known from classical antiquity, but remains in occasional use in some countries.

The crucifixion of Jesus is a central narrative in Christianity, and the cross (sometimes depicting Jesus nailed onto it) is the main religious symbol for many Christian churches.

Crucifixion (Masaccio)

Crucifixion is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Masaccio.

A chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa commissioned an altarpiece from Masaccio on February 19, 1426 for the sum of 80 florins. Payment for the work was recorded on December 26 of that year. The altarpiece was dismantled and dispersed in the 18th century, but an attempted reconstruction was made possible due to a detailed description of the work by Vasari. Eleven pieces have been found as of 2010, and they are insufficient to reliably reconstruct the whole work. The Crucifixion is one of the surviving panels connected with the Pisa Altarpiece.

The Crucifixion was placed above the central panel of the altarpiece, which represented the Virgin enthroned with the baby Jesus on her lap, flanked by 2 pairs of angels. Although the panel unnaturalistically represents the narrative against a gold background (a medieval formula for representing sacred scenes), Masaccio creates an effect of reality by depicting the event from below, as the viewer standing before the altar truly saw it. In this way, he attempts to tie the viewer to the scene, to make the sacred accessible to the ordinary Christian.

This is not the crucifixion in the mosaic of the dormition

Crucifixion (Antonello da Messina)

The Crucifixion is the subject of three different paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina; the first two were completed around 1454/1455, the third in 1475. They are housed in the Brukenthal National Museum ( Sibiu, Romania); the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp ( Antwerp, Belgium) and in the National Gallery ( London, UK), respectively.

Crucifixion (disambiguation)

Crucify or Crucifixion may refer to:

  • Crucifixion, an ancient method of execution, where the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead
  • The crucifixion of Jesus, a first-century AD event, central to the founding and beliefs of Christianity and generally referred to as "The Crucifixion"
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)

Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) is a 1954 oil-on-canvas painting by Salvador Dalí which depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus, though it deviates from traditional portrayals of the Crucifixion by depicting Christ on the polyhedron net of a hypercube and adding elements of Surrealism. It is one of his most well known paintings from the later period of his career.

Crucifixion (Bellini)

Crucifixion is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini, created around 1455–1460. It is housed in the Museo Correr in Venice.

The work was originally in the church of San Salvador of Venice, and is part of the Mantegna-influenced phase of Bellini's early career.

Crucifixion (Titian)

The Crucifixion is a life sized painting by the Venetian artist Titian, completed in 1558 and presently hanging in the sanctuary of the church of San Domenico, Ancona. Jesus Christ is shown crucified, with Saint Mary and Saint John standing either side of the cross in the Stabat Mater tradition. The kneeling figure is of Saint Dominic. The canvas was completed during Titian’s fifth decade of painting, and is one of the works marking a shift toward his extensive exploration of tragedy and human suffering.

Crucifixion (Francis Bacon, 1965)

Crucifixion is a 1965 triptych painted by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. Across each of the three panels, the work shows three forms of violent death.

This triptych was the third such which Bacon painted relating to the Crucifixion, and follows 1944's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and the Three Studies for a Crucifixion of 1962. For Bacon images of the crucifixion were "a maginficient armature on which you can [work] about your own feelings and sensations ... You are working on all sorts of very private feelings about behaviour and the way life is".

The 1965 work closely follows the 1962 triptych in mood, colour and form, and continues the artist's preoccupation with the imagery of the slaughterhouse. However, whereas the earlier work had an urgency and sense of struggle, the 1965 crucifixion shows defeated and butchered figures splayed on beds and hanging upside down on hooks. In the left hand panel a human carcass is shown lying on the bed. The figure is covered in splintlike bandages which, according to the art critic Hugh Davies, suggest "the frilly parer collars used by butchers to dress up joints of meat".

In the central panel a half human, half animal hybrid figure hangs upside down from an angled scaffold structure. On the right hand canvas, two men are shown watching the scene. They have been described by Davies as possibly being intended as "tormentors, witnesses, or fellow victims".

Bacon told David Sylvester,

I've always been very moved by pictures about slaughterhouses and meat, and to me that belong very much to the whole thing of the Crucifixion. There've been extraordinary photographs which have been done of animals just being taken up before they were slaughtered; and the smell of death. We don't know, of course, but it appears by these photographs that they're so aware of what is going to happen to them, they do everything to attempt to escape. I think these pictures were very much based on that kind of thing, which to me is very, very near this whole thing of the Crucifixion. I know for religious people, for Christians, the Crucifixion has a totally different significance. But as a non-believer, it was just an act of man's behaviour to another".
Crucifixion (song)

"Crucifixion" (sometimes titled "The Crucifixion") is a 1966 song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. singer-songwriter. Ochs described the song as "the greatest song I've ever written".

Crucifixion (Nabil Kanso)

The Crucifixion is the subject of a painting by Nabil Kanso painted in 1983. It is oil on canvas measuring 2.75 X 2.25 meters (9 X 7 feet). The color conception is dark brown, near black with flashes of red hues in a composition reflecting what some critical opinion point out “The unique perspective of this Crucifixion sets us behind Christ’s Cross witnessing, along with many other hollow faces, an indistinct Jesus set off from the chaotic background by a searing white aura.”

Crucifixion (Mantegna)

The Crucifixion is a panel in the central part of the predella (see image below) of a large altar piece painted by Andrea Mantegna between 1457 and 1459 for the high altar of San Zeno, Verona ( Italy). It was commissioned by Gregorio Correr, the abbot of that monastery.

Crucifixion (Modena)

Crucifixion is a 1375 panel painting by Italian artist Barnaba da Modena, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. It depicts the crucifixion of Jesus in tempera and gold.

Crucifixion (after van Eyck?)

Crucifixion is a c. 1440-50 oil on panel painting usually attributed to the workshop of Jan van Eyck, who worked from one of his original designs, or his older brother Hubert. It shows the crucified Christ, attended by his mother Mary, and St. John the Baptist. The scene is set before an expansive and highly detailed background depiction of Jerusalem. Mary and John are presented in deep sorrow, but more dignified and composed than the wialing women on the left hand side. On the right is a group of horsemen who seem unmoved by the execution, acting as if this was their daily business.

The painting was in Vento in Italy by the mid 15th century, where it was believed a lost copy of a van Eyck original. It was highly influential on the development of Itialian art, and was widely copied, both directly and in adaptions.

Crucifixion (van Dyck)

The Crucifixion is an oil on canvas painting by Anthony van Dyck, produced around 1630. It is 2.51 m high.

Usage examples of "crucifixion".

She it was who bestowed his Messiahship by ritually anointing him with spikenard, and if the idea that she was wealthy is correct, then perhaps her influence made the initiatory and magical rite of the Crucifixion possible.

Yet even worse was the knowledge that that pain would accompany his entire final journey down into eventual unconsciousness, and with itan added traumawere the images burned into him: almost forty hours of being driven on foot up Aren Way, watching each and every one of those ten thousand soldiers joined to the mass crucifixion in a chain of suffering stretching over three leagues, each link scores of men and women nailed to every tree, to every available space on those tall, broad trunks.

Pierre Barbet saw nothing strange or wrong in using cadavers meant for the teaching of anatomy as subjects in a simulated crucifixion to prove to doubters that the miraculous Shroud of Turin was for real.

Under ordinary circumstances the pirates would have killed Clodius, but Pompey and Metellus Nepos were too near to risk a death sentence: word had got out that capture did not mean an automatic crucifixion, that Pompey preferred to be clement.

This is a famous passage in which Paul is probably quoting from an early Christian hymn about the emptying of Christ, who was equal to God yet took the form of a man, of a slave, and suffered the extreme penalty, the Crucifixion.

But the way Rubella worked, a sympathetic magistrate would be asked to review evidence like this, circumstantial but yet shocking, then his condemnation would send the kidnappers straight to crucifixion or to the arena beasts.

Mother Clare often chanted Sext and None, which commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus, in tears.

I have said that on this particular morning, our first in Prague, I was standing before the doors of the Teyn Kirche, beneath the story of the Crucifixion as it is told there in stone.

The late German Chancellor became uneasily aware that the crucifixion of Belgium was one of the causes which made this war a truceless war, and his offer, which no doubt seemed to him perfectly reasonable, was that Germany is willing to bargain about Belgium, and to relax her hold, in exchange for solid advantages elsewhere.

I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.

In that account, the servant of the High Priest, a man named Malchus, was among those who went to arrest Yeshua on the night before his crucifixion.

No more of the palliating and beautifying that the Roman epoch thought proper to a depiction of the Crucifixion: here you have no royal crown, no majestic triumph over martyrdom and the world.

Sir Henry Layard does not appear to know that there are any figures in the Crucifixion Chapel of Gaudenzio, or indeed in any of the chapels for which Gaudenzio painted frescoes, and falls into a trap which seems almost laid on purpose for those who would write about Varallo without having been there, in supposing that Gaudenzio painted a Pieta on the Sacro Monte.

No date can be positively assigned for his great Crucifixion chapel on the Sacro Monte, but it belongs probably to the years 1524-1528.

Christ taken for the last time before Pilate, the Original journey to Calvary, Fainting Madonna, Crucifixion, Entombment, Ascension, and the old church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary now removed.