What is the title of Salvador Dalí’s 1954 painting showing Christ on a hypercube cross?

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Salvador Dalí’s 1954 painting showing Christ on a hypercube cross is titled Corpus Hypercubus.

The work depicts Christ suspended before a cross formed from a three-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional hypercube, also called a tesseract. Dalí combined traditional Christian imagery with ideas from modern mathematics, creating a crucifixion scene that appears to float above a chessboard-like floor.

Gala stands below the cross, looking upward, while the landscape recalls the surroundings of Portlligat. The painting is also known as The Crucifixion. It is distinct from Dalí’s 1951 Christ of Saint John of the Cross, which shows Christ from an overhead viewpoint and uses a conventional cross rather than a hypercube.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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