Salvador Dalí's Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1954, Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989),
Oil on Canvas
Dalí's Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) depicts a crucified Jesus Christ upon the net of a hypercube. Dalí's wife, Gala, is the figure in the bottom left looking up at Jesus. The scene is depicted in front of the Bay of Port Lligat. Dalí called his work, Ayn Rand's favorite painting, a "metaphysical, transcendent cubism" based on the Treatise on Cubic Form by Juan de Herrera, Philip II's achitect and builder of the Escorial Palace. The cross is formed by an octahedral hypercube. The number nine is identifiable and becomes consubstantial with the body of Christ. [1]
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