The Church of Sant’Agostino

Crucifixion and Deposition

  • The next episode, the Crucifixion, was painted around 1502 by Perugino. The canvas, above the second altar on the right in the nave, portrays Jesus in the hour of his death. At the foot of the cross, along with the pious women and Saint John the Baptist, are some Augustinian saints: Monica, Augustine’s mother; Augustine, the patron saint of the order; and Jerome, a Desert Father, whose presence . . .