The work represents jesus christ being scourged and crowned with a crown of thorns. Among the commissions made by correa for the former bernardine monastery of san martín de valdeiglesias, there is a group of three panels with scenes related to the cycle of the passion of christ, made in circular compositions that, due to their great stylistic similarities, probably must have belonged to the same group. These three tables represent three successive stories: pilate washing his hands (p00668), the crowning with thorns and an ecce homo (p00670). The episode captured in this table mainly follows the narratives of the canonical gospels and is also included in the apocryphal gospels. Inside the praetorium, of which only a pillar and an arch can be seen in the background, the figure of christ stands out in the center, seated on a bench like a throne, tied up, stripped of his clothes and with his torso naked, partially covered by the mantle with which they wanted to ridicule him as king, although on this occasion it is green instead of purple, as would be the case according to the evangelical stories. Christ offers the same physiognomy as in the previous table and on this occasion he directs his gaze directly at the viewer, in order to awaken his devotion and piety in the faithful. Jesus constitutes the compositional axis around which three executioners are arranged. Two of them, with sadistic expressions, rebuke him and stab him with the crown of thorns with the crossed reeds they carry in their hands; one is wearing an ocher breastplate, the other, with his knee resting on the bench, is wearing a white shirt, a green doublet, and slashed red leggings, in the style of correa's time. In the foreground another executioner, removing his hat, prostrates himself before christ in a mocking position and hits him with the cane that had been given to him as a scepter. Except for the figure of christ, the characters' clothing generally conforms to the fashion of the first half of the 16th century. The crowning with thorns of san martín de valdeiglesias recalls the panel with this same theme, attributed to juan de borgoña and his workshop, which constituted a station altarpiece in the cloister of the disappeared toledo convent of san juan de la penitencia, in this case with a greater presence of characters (text extracted from cortes hernández, s.;ocaña rodríguez, e. In: juan correa de vivar, c. 1510-1566. Master of the spanish renaissance, 2010). Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: between 1540 and 1545. Dimensions: 90 × 90 cm (35.4 × 35.4 in). Medium: oil on panel. Depicted People: Jesus. Collection: Museo del Prado. Coronación de espinas, por Juan Correa de Vivar
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