Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
The column
The Flagellation is the scourging ordered after the trial. The gospels report it in a clause — Pilate had him scourged — and give no setting, so the column came from tradition rather than from the text and then became the fixed sign of the episode. A title that names the column names the scene without needing to name the act.
Where it sits in the Passion
After the trials before the high priest and the governor, and before the crowning with thorns and the road to Calvary. It is the first of the three episodes of physical violence that the Passion sets in a row, and it is the one that painting kept closest to a single upright figure, because the column supplies the axis.
What the catalogue records
The entry gives Caravaggio, 1607, and the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France. It measures 134.5 x 175.5 cm, horizontal — wider than tall, which is not the usual proportion for this subject. The style is entered as Baroque and, in a second tag, as Tenebrism; the artist is recorded as Italian. The subject fields class the work as a group composition and as religious. The measured palette reads as red. Five works in this catalogue are entered under this artist.
Sources
7 references- Caravaggio, Gianni — Getty ULAN
Italian sculptor and installation artist, born 1968
- Caravaggio — Wikipedia
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic li
- Caravaggio, Cecco del — Getty ULAN
Italian painter, active ca. 1610-1620
- Christ at the Column — Wikidata
description: painting by Caravaggio; inception: 1606-01-01; dimensions: 134.5 × 175.5 cm; collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
- Christ at the Column (Caravaggio) — Wikipedia
Christ at the Column (also known as The Flagellation of Christ), is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio, from c. 1606–1607. It is held in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, in Rouen. == History and description == This is on
- lux.collections.yale.edu — reference for "Christ at the Column (Caravaggio)"
Authoritative source for this work (lux.collections.yale.edu).
- Christ at the Column-Caravaggio (c. 1607) — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
