TIZIANO Vecellio
(b. 1490, Pieve di Cadore, d. 1576, Venezia)

Christ Carrying the Cross

1506-07
Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

Executed for the church of San Rocco and long venerated as miraculous, this painting is a German-style interpretation of a traditional Venetian devotional model.