Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Incoronazione di spine (The Crowning with Thorns) 1540–1543 Oil on panel, 303 x 180 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted between 1540 and 1543 for the Confraternità di Santa Corona and placed in the funerary chapel of the brotherhood (decorated…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian 1802 Graphite on paper, 12.8 x 11.4 cm Tate Britain, London Titian’s picture was painted for the church of Sta Maria delle Grazie in Milan, 1540–2. For Turner’s remarks on it,…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Light of The World 1851–1856 Oil on canvas, 49.8 x 26.1 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Painting in the shape of an arched doorway. Standing at a wooden doorway with rusted hinges and overgrown with ivy and…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Shadow of Death 1870–1873 Oil on canvas, 214.2 x 168.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester The picture shows a carpenter’s workshop. A youthful Christ, depicted as muscular and tanned, stands facing the front and stretching, with…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Shadow of Death 1873–1874 Oil on panel, 104.5 x 82 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This minutely detailed painting depicts the young Jesus stretching after his day’s labor in his father’s carpentry shop. His mother,…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Mocking of Christ 1628–1630 Oil on canvas, 112 x 93 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The most brilliant of Peter Paul Rubens’s assistants, Van Dyck left Antwerp to pursue his career in London and Genoa.…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Tête de Christ couronné d’épines (Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns) s.d. Black, white and brown chalk on brown paper, 42 x 31.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Sudarium held by two angels 1513 Engraving, 10 x 13.9 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Although Dürer made several celebrated series of Passion engravings, this related image of Christ’s head crowned with thorns is a stand-alone print;…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Le Christ sur la croix (Christ on the Cross) 1853 Oil on canvas, 73.5 × 59.7 cm National Gallery, London Delacroix depicts a moment described in Gospel of John, when Christ addresses his mother, the Virgin Mary, and one…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1471 Tempera on wood, 28.5 × 35 cm National Gallery, London Christ is shown nailed to the Cross at his crucifixion, flanked by the two thieves who were crucified alongside him. His mother, the Virgin…