Cleveland Museum of Art
The Passion: The Flagellation
Hendrick GoltziusLinkedCulture matchlcp-c162078f1223
- Date
- 1597
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Netherlands, 16th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150691
Goltzius situates his flagellation scene in an urban setting, rather than an open landscape; the compressed space serves to intensify the action. Bound tightly to a tall column, Jesus is whipped by two men, the one on the left wielding a leather whip tipped with barbs; the one on the right with bundled birch branches. Jesus’s body is powerfully muscled, but his face is anguished and gaunt. This engraving was included in a series of 12 prints by Goltzius illustrating the Passion of Christ, extremely popular during the artist’s lifetime and beyond, and inspiring many copies.
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- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1982: (Pia Gallo Fine Prints, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1982–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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