The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, ca. 1624?25, Oil on canvas, 61 x 40 1/4 in. (154. 9 x 102. 2 cm), Paintings, Hendrick ter Brugghen (Dutch, The Hague? 1588?1629 Utrecht), This powerful image was probably painted for a Catholic 'hidden church' in Ter Brugghen?s city of Utrecht, where Catholicism was tolerated but not encouraged. The artist, a Protestant, recaptures the devotional intensity of earlier German and Dutch altarpieces in his stark composition and in the angular figure of Christ