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Source Description
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).
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
30023
label
Christ Crowned with Thorns
core
obj
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object
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
30023
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Christ Crowned with Thorns
description
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).
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1630s (?) (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
statuettes (statues)
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensionsRaw
13 in. (33 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
LONG FRENCH INSCRIPTION (where? on a paper label?)
med
ivory
creator_ids
34640
collection_ids
BAR
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
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b3539298bc5bfdf1
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no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
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c2ccffea4171905c
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no