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The Crucifixion, Francisco de Zurbarán, The Art Institute of Chicago
The CrucifixionFrancisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) · 1627The Art Institute of Chicago · Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0) · the museum’s recordscan 1,701 × 3,000 px

A masterwork Flemish and Spanish Baroque

The Crucifixion

Francisco de Zurbarán, 1598–1664, painted 1627

Held by The Art Institute of Chicago and released as Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0). It hangs here as a reference for a hand: paint your own line and the painters copy its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.

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This scan is 1,701 × 3,000 pixels: not enough to print cleanly, so it seeds paintings only.

What a seed does
The painting is the instruction. The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, is the only subject.
The credit
Every painting seeded from it carries “after Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), The Crucifixion, The Art Institute of Chicago” on its plaque, and on the share page.
The licence
Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago, CC0), as the museum states it. The scan is served with that credit in its headers, and it is never upscaled.

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