One tall, rectangular panel is flanked by arched panels to each side, all set within a carved, painted, gilded wooden frame. The central panel shows two people at the foot of a wooden cross, to which a man is nailed, and the panels to each side are each occupied by a single person. All the people have pale skin and are shown against landscapes with rocky outcroppings along a river that extends into the deep distance. At the center of the middle panel, the man hangs from the cross from nails in his hands and one nail driven through his overlapping feet. He is nude except for the white loincloth wrapped around his hips, which falls in fluttering ripples alongside his right leg, on our left. Blood drips down his forehead from where a ring of thorns encircles his shoulder-length, chestnut-brown hair. His head tilts to his right, our left, and his eyes are closed or downcast. Blood also drips from his hands and feet, and from a slit over his right ribcage. The woman standing to our left of the cross wears a navy-blue robe edged in gold that covers her head and drapes to her ankles above bare feet. Her head tips down to our right, and she holds her hands clasped loosely, fingers intertwined, at her waist. The person standing to our right of the cross wears a cobalt-blue robe under a vivid, scarlet-red cloak. He has blond curly hair and delicate features, like the woman. With arms nearly straight, he holds his interlaced fingers with palms facing down, close to his body. He looks up at the man on the cross. Low hills dotted with flowers and plants separate the people from a river that runs between rocky hills and outcroppings. Stone buildings line the bank beyond a bridge spanning the river in the distance, and three boats sail near the horizon line, which comes halfway up the composition. The hills and mountains look green and then blue in the deep distance under a sky that fades from nearly white along the horizon to pale, topaz blue along the top edge of the panel, which is also lined with clouds. In the panel to our left, a balding man with gray hair leans on a wooden staff like a crutch, nearly in profile facing our right. He also is nude aside from a slate-gray cloth that wraps around his hips. He holds his loosely fisted right hand up to his chest. A lion stands in front of a cave entrance behind the man. In the panel to our right, a woman wears a mauve-pink dress under a pine-green cloak. She holds her hands clasped with fingers interlaced at her abdomen. A small, gold-colored jar with handles sits on a rock to our left. Both the man and woman in the side panels look up toward the man on the cross. The landscape behind those in the side panels enclose each scene with rocky outcroppings that seem closer to us than the landscape in the central panel. More plants and flowers, and also trees, dot each landscape and soften the caramel-brown boulders with touches of moss and emerald green. The frame encasing the panels is carved and gilded gold around strips of aquamarine blue, which are painted with swirling tendrils, vines, urns, shells, animals, and some mask-like faces.
![The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene [left panel]](https://media.nga.gov/iiif/b43e331e-ede9-44ca-a276-0b8806630fbd/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg)
![The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene [middle panel]](https://media.nga.gov/iiif/63049d6b-06b2-4e4b-9443-532df5b30fa7/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg)
![The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene [right panel]](https://media.nga.gov/iiif/49cffd8d-5c06-4628-9369-1b6bdb3e7b90/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg)
