Good Friday

 This Rembrandt print from 1653, popularly known as The Three Crosses, is one of the most dramatically expressive even of that artist's prints. Beginning as drypoint and evolving into a mixture of drypoint and etching, it exists in various states (and in various museums), with the chiaroscuro becoming more and more marked through the ten-year period over which Rembrandt worked on it. In the last stage, many of the attendant figures have disappeared into an engulfing darkness out of which the figure of Christ, forsaken but glorious, shines all the brighter.
The image above is from the Boston Museum of Fine Art.