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The Crowning with Thorns (Caravaggio, Vienna)

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illustrates what Giustiniani meant: the cruelty of the two torturers hammering home the thorns is depicted as acutely observed reality, as is the bored slouch of the official leaning on the rail as he oversees the death of God; meanwhile Christ is suffering real pain with patient endurance; all
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Caravaggio's patron Vincenzo Giustiniani was an intellectual as well as a collector, and late in life he wrote a paper about art in which he identified twelve grades of accomplishment. In the highest class he named just two artists, Caravaggio and
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depicted within a classical composition of contrasting and intersecting horizontals and diagonals.
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Madonna of Loreto (Madonna dei Pellegrini, Pilgrims' Madonna)
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The Crowning with Thorns by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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The theme of pain and sadism is central to the work.
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Caravaggio
Italian
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Ludwig von Lebzelter
Giovanni Bellori
Vincenzo Giustiniani
Peter Robb
crown of thorns
crucifixion
claim to authority
Belvedere Torso
supraporte
Annibale Carracci
The Crowning with Thorns
List of paintings by Caravaggio
"The Crowning with Thorns by Caravaggio"
Dornenkrönung Christi
"The Crowning with Thorns"
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