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Crucifixion of Christ at the winged triptych at the Church of the Teutonic Order in Vienna, Austria.
Woodcarvings by an anonymous master; polychromy by Jan van Wavere, Mechelen, signed 1520.
This altarpiece was originally made for St.
Mary's Church, Gdańsk, and came to Vienna in 1864.
A crucifix （from Latin cruci fixus meaning "（one） fixed to a cross"） is an image of Jesus on the cross, as distinct from a bare cross.
The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus （Latin for "body"）.
The crucifix is a principal symbol for many groups of Christians, and one of the most common forms of the Crucifixion in the arts.
It is especially important in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, but is also used in the Eastern Orthodox Church, most Oriental Orthodox Churches （except the Armenian & Syriac Church）,
and the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as by the Lutheran, Moravian and Anglican Churches.
The symbol is less common in churches of other Protestant denominations, and in the Assyrian Church of the East and Armenian Apostolic Church, which prefer to use a cross without the figure of Jesus （the corpus）.
The crucifix emphasizes Jesus' sacrifice—his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of humankind.
Most crucifixes portray Jesus on a Latin cross, rather than any other shape, such as a Tau cross or a Coptic cross.
Western crucifixes usually have a three-dimensional corpus, but in Eastern Orthodoxy Jesus' body is normally painted on the cross, or in low relief.
Strictly speaking, to be a crucifix, the cross must be three-dimensional, but this distinction is not always observed.
An entire painting of the...