[stop_fascism]

When you look at earlier representations, they are quite bloody and agonized. It is only with the Renaissance that we get more composed and pacific crucification scenes.

[AnAmericanMother]

The most painful Agony:

Matthias Grunewald, the Isenheim Altarpiece. It was painted for the lepers' hospital of St. Antony Abbot at Isenheim.