User:Michel Mapaliey/Cross

In flags[edit]

Several flags have crosses, including all the nations of Scandinavia, whose crosses are known as Scandinavian crosses, and many nations in the Southern Hemisphere, which incorporate the Southern Cross. The Flag of Switzerland since the 17th century has displayed an equilateral cross in a square (the only square flag of a sovereign state apart from the Flag of the Vatican City); the Red Cross emblem was based on the Swiss flag.

Carved panel of the 5th century wooden door of Santa Sabina in Rome, believed to be the oldest surviving depiction of the Crucifixion, apart from the Alexamenos graffito.
Crucifixion in the Rabbula Gospels, completed in 586. The claim by Blochet that the miniatures are of the 10th or 11th century is not generally accepted.
Drawing by Paolo Frisi (1728-1784) of a perhaps 11th-century depiction of the Crucifixion
Crucifixion by Cimabue (Gothic period, thirteenth century)
Christ on the cross, St. Maria im Kapitol, Gabelkreuz, Germany, (1304)
Y-shaped cross
Crucifixion of Christ, Russian Orthodox icon of about 1350
Icon of the Crucifixion, mid-sixteenth century, following traditional style of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Crucifixion, by Conrad Witz (c. 1444)
T-shaped cross
Christ on the cross, by Rogier van der Weyden (1400-1464)
Almost T-shaped cross
Christ on the cross, with two thieves crucified on trees, by Antonello da Messina (1430-1479)
Christ on the Cross, El Greco (1541-1614)
T-shaped cross
Jansenist crucifix: belief in limited number of the predestined, by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)
Church of Holmen, Copenhagen, Denmark. The position of the arms does not necessarily indicate a Jansenist view
Crucifixion (modern) omitting representation of cross (cf. ancient door of Santa Sabina)