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The derision of Christ (mid 15th century)
polychromed wood
135.0 × 51.7 × 47.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Xavier College Arts Advisory Board from The John Kerr Tutton Trust, David Byrne, John T. (Jack) Rush QC, Margie Sweeney and Barry Sweeney and an anonymous donor, 2012
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The derision of Christ
(mid 15th century)
Medium
polychromed wood
Measurements
135.0 × 51.7 × 47.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Xavier College Arts Advisory Board from The John Kerr Tutton Trust, David Byrne, John T. (Jack) Rush QC, Margie Sweeney and Barry Sweeney and an anonymous donor, 2012
Gallery location
14th - 16th Century Gallery - Painting & Decorative Arts
Level 1, NGV International
About this work
This lifelike figure of Christ is thought to have been produced in north-east France during the fifteenth century, in a region where medieval Passion plays and commerce thrived. It depicts the ‘Ecce homo’ (Behold the Man) moment when the bound and flogged Christ was stripped and mocked by Roman soldiers for having proclaimed himself ‘King of the Jews’. Such figures were typically displayed in church niches, but in some communities they were brought out during Lent and ‘dressed’ realistically, with a living crown of thorns, actual rope binding the hands and a fresh palm frond as sceptre, and carried through the streets.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
(France)
Accession Number
2012.336
Department
International Sculpture
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