The iconographic choices reflect precise instructions from the clients, who carried out charitable activities on the behalf of abandoned children – whence the image of the madonna del latte, i. E. The virgin nursing the child – and who practiced such forms of penitence as flogging themselves in public. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: circa 1475. Place of creation: Italy. Dimensions: height: 84 cm (33 in); width: 57 cm (22.4 in) roundheaded. Medium: tempera on panel. Depicted People: Pontius Pilatus, Jesus. Collection: Pinacoteca di Brera. Flagellation (Luca Signorelli)
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