Night Travellers at a Cross (Slovak: Noční pútnici pri kríži) is a painting by Hungarian artist László Mednyánszky from 1880.
Description The picture was created in the first half of 1880. It has the dimensions 244 x 149 centimeters. It is in the collection of the Slovak National Gallery.Noční pútnici pri kríži, webumenia.sk.
Analysis The picture shows three people with bowed heads who pray at the cross in a dark forest at night. The composition's monumental scale is emphasized by the size of the travellers, as well as by the moonlight.
The theme of a cross in a forest - which has symbolized death - is seen regularly in Mednyánszky's works.Noční pútnici pri kríži, europeana.eu.
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