The Crowning with Thorns
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A coronation wants a crown, a sceptre, a bent knee; Matthew 27:29 supplies all three as mockery — Hail, King of the Jews. The staves pressing the crown onto Christ's head do the work of the reed that verse puts in his right hand. Torches at the upper right, thick white and gold; further staves bar the foreground until the action almost stops.
Thirty years earlier Titian set the same scene before a theatrically placed bust inscribed TIBERIVS CAESAR, the emperor Luke names beside Pilate. That panel left Milan in 1796; the emperor's name went to Paris with it.
Sources: Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. 2272, collection record · Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, Smarthistory, 9 Dec 2015 · Musee du Louvre, Departement des Peintures · Utpictura18, Aix-Marseille Universite, notice 6771 · Matthew 27:29-30 (NABRE), USCCB · arthistoricum.net (Fachinformationsdienst Kunst), Lektion XVI, 'Tizians Altartafeln'. · Luke 3:1, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
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), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,104 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.