Christ and the two thieves crucified
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
(Christ .a, confirmed): 10 3/4 × 8 × 1 13/16 in. (27.3 × 20.3 × 4.6 cm); (Thief .b, confirmed): 9 3/8 × 7 1/4 × 2 3/8 in. (23.8 × 18.4 × 6 cm); (Thief .c, confirmed): 9 1/8 × 8 3/4 × 2 7/8 in. (23.2 × 22.2 × 7.3 cm); (Base and crosses): 31 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. (79.8 x 44.5 cm)
Classification
Sculpture-Bronze
Culture
Italian
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.28a–d
Tags
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo Buonarroti · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...