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Christ Crowned with Thorns
(Baroque Europe )
This multi-figure subject of two Roman soldiers tormenting the seated Christ was much more of a challenge to carve from an ivory tusk than the more common choice of the single figure of the tormented Christ, relying on the viewer's imagination to fill in the rest of the scene, as in Christ at the Column (71.356). That challenge may have been the point.
The combination of elongated bodies, harsh, realistic details, such as the strained faces or flapping skirts of the soldier's armor, and the raw, awkward energy of the piece point directly to the work of the little-known Jacobius Agnesius, probably German, whose work bears comparison with that of the Master of the Furies (German or Austrian).
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Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Spain (Place of Origin)
Measurements
13 in. (33 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
71.434