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The Crowning with Thorns
c. 1570s · Canvas · Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen — Alte Pinakothek, München
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Staves cross over one bowed head, and the men holding them lean in with their whole weight. Christ sits on the step, eyes down, a white cloth at His shoulders. Matthew tells it as a coronation turned to mockery: a crown of thorns, a reed, a bent knee. The Alte Pinakothek describes the tormentors pressing the crown down onto Christ's head with sticks while He stays composed, the sombre atmosphere underlining the brutality. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker point to the torches at the upper right, thick white and gold paint, and figures coming out of darkness into a shallow space; it was said, they note, that the late Titian painted with his hands. Thirty years earlier, in the version now in the Louvre, he set the same scene below a bust inscribed TIBERIVS CAESAR. Here there is no emperor, only the one they are mocking.
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)