the artist places the face of Christ upwards, looks at his father and speaks to him. He doesn't look at the viewer. The scene focuses on his face, excluding his body, almost cinematic. Short beard, half-open mouth, tears running down his eyes, the rope around his neck
Antonello da Messina wants to shorten the distance with the viewer and in the painting he chooses a very close cut and from bottom to top, almost a zoom, to highlight all the signs of suffering. Christ stands with his lips parted, as in the act of invoking his father, "God why have you forsaken me?", And We can see the tears streaming down his cheeks, the drops of blood, the jugular stretched under the rope that he encircles his neck, his hair wet with sweat.
He is a Christ more man than God