Crucifixion of Christ (the 'Wilten Crucifixion')

This Crucifixion takes its name from Wilten, the old Premonstratensian abbey in Innsbruck where it was kept until the Kunsthistorisches Museum acquired it in 1937. The Belvedere suggests, with a question mark, that it first hung in the former All Saints church in Hötting, on the other bank of the river Inn. An unknown Tyrolean painter made it around 1435. Above one thief an angel takes up his soul, a tiny naked figure, while a dark winged devil drags the other thief's soul out of his mouth. Among the riders, a richly dressed officer holds a scroll with the centurion's words from the Gospel, Truly this was the Son of God. Mary sinks into the arms of the women, John looks up with his hands clasped, and a skull lies at the foot of the cross. Near the horses' hooves stands a small dog.