Minneapolis Institute of Art
Christ Crowned with Thorns
Lucas van Leyden
- Date
- 1519
- Medium
- Engraving
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Eager to intensify their compassion for Christ, people hungered for details about his physical pain. Passion narratives reported that during the Crowning with Thorns, the tormentors pushed down so forcefully that the crown pierced Christ's head and brains. The men pounded until the points of the thorns reached into his glorious mouth, sticking out through his throat. The treatise Speculum passionis specified that the crown had 77 thorns, with three points on each thorn. Netherlands, Europe
The authoritative record is held by Minneapolis Institute of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Minneapolis Institute of Art and other institutions.
Christ Crowned with Thorns
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Crowning with Thorns, from Passion of Christ
Art Institute of Chicago
Christ Crowned with Thorns
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Passion: Christ Crowning with Thorns
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Passion: Christ Crowned with Thorns
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Round Passion: Christ Crowned with Thorns
Cleveland Museum of Art
Passion Set: Christ Crowned with Thorns
Cleveland Museum of Art
Christ Crowned with Thorns
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Christ Crowned with Thorns
Getty Museum
Christ Crowned with Thorns
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Christ on the Cross with Mary and Saint John
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Crowning with Thorns, plate seven from The Passion of Christ
Art Institute of Chicago