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The Crowning with Thorns
c. 1603 · Canvas · Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
For Good Friday
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Two men press the crown down with staves, and Christ bows under it, a reed in His hand and a red cloak about His shoulders. The USCCB's notes on Matthew read the thorns as ridicule more than torture, a mock diadem like the rayed crowns of Hellenistic kings. The Kunsthistorisches Museum sees the brutality in His neck forced horizontal, and His delicate skin against their bronzed bodies. The Giustiniani inventory of 1638 records it over a doorway. The museum gives the painting to Caravaggio; Ferdinando Bologna records that the execution has been given to another hand. The reed is the only sceptre they allow Him.
Sources: GG 307, canvas, 127 × 166.5 cm, c. 1601; the neck forced horizontal; the delicate skin against the tormentors' bronzed bodies; recorded as a supraporte in the Giustiniani inventory of 1638 · the crown as a mock diadem resembling the rayed crown of Hellenistic kings, the soldiers' purpose being ridicule rather than torture · the armoured onlooker behind the rail who observes without taking part · Ferdinando Bologna, ‘Merisi, Michelangelo, detto Caravaggio’, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 73 (2009)
And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews.
Matthew 27:29 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)