From the Painting Guide: This was clearly done with passion, and at this scale some of the detail can't really be seen, such as the houses in heaven on the top right. My thoughts on this painting are that the darkness you talk about on the left isn't particularly dark – even though it is darker than the right-hand side, it's still quite light and colourful. There's also a lot of greenery given where the crucifixion took place, ie on a barren hill in what is now Israel. The torso seems very and the limbs very short in comparison; perhaps the loin cloth is hanging a bit low.