Christ Crowned with Thorns

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Christ Crowned with Thorns

Lucas van LeydenLinkedCulture matchlcp-8d0271e29b67

Date
1519
Medium
Engraving
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
54257

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

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Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1926

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