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Christ on the cross: a violent image as an act of commiseration

No image I know in the history of Western painting is more brutal than the crucifixion scene in the Isenheim Altarpiece. Its violence would make Quentin Tarantino blush.

By Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Art Critic

February 15, 2013

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