The ''Crucifixion'' is the subject of three different paintings by the Italian
Renaissance
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Antonello da Messina
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; the first one was completed around 1454/1455, the second and the third in 1475. They are housed in the
Brukenthal National Museum
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Sibiu
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Romania
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Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp (
Antwerp,
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) and in the
National Gallery
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London
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