Crucifixion

“[…] Christ. In the painting, men and animals adore Him together. Horses shaken and horses mounted. The idea is original. Animals, symbols of naive life, attended Christ’s birth. Why not accept them at His death? Some women are kneeling at the foot of the Cross. A dazzling light, but white, very clear and unnatural, envelops the crucified Redeemer. It is the moment when the sun darkens and the veil of the temple, says St. Luke, is torn through the middle. But Jesus was still God and the shadow had no power to obscure Him. That is why, in the painting, Christ shines and the shadow, on the other hand, thickens around him, dripping onto the women’s garments; it seems as though the cross is a black sun. But the white light of Christ, as in the painting, is that enclosed within the words (St. Luke 23) of the Roman centurion: “Surely this (Christ) was a righteous man”.
In the moment that the painter has portrayed, d’Accardi’s profession of love is pertinent to the beloved thing that is the Crucifix. Respectfully pertinent. And it can be said that the painting expresses, in shadow, light and colour, Jesus’ love for the world and His anguish for men.”

Dino Campini, La Patria, 1955