Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.
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Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.

Giovanni Battista Cavalieri · 1568

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Triumphum crucis ; milia milium ministraba[n]t ei et decies milies centena milia assisteba[n]t ei. Daniel 7 ; Fragilitas humani generis ; angelis suis mandavit de te ut custodiant te in omnibus uiis tuis ; Ioannes Baptist[a] de Cavalleriis excudebat 1568. Lettering continues with Bible quotations in Latin at foot, and religious aphorisms in Latin on the crosses and on the buildings in the background. The cross which Christ is carrying bears the words "Iugu[m] eni[m] meum suaue et onus meum leve. Qui vult venire post me abneget semetipsu[m] et tollet + [i.e. crucem]"

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