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File: Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio - The Crowning with Thorns - Google Art Project.jpg
Paintings of Jesus being crowned with thorns. Pages in category "Paintings of Christ Crowned with Thorns" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The three Biblical gospels that mention the crown of thorns do not say what happened to it after the crucifixion. The oldest known mention of the crown already being venerated as a relic was made by Paulinus of Nola, writing after 409, [8] who refers to the crown as a relic that was adored by the faithful (Epistle Macarius in Migne, Patrologia Latina, LXI, 407).
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Articles relating to the crown of thorns and its depictions. It was the crown placed on the head of Jesus during the events leading up to his crucifixion.It was one of the instruments of the Passion, employed by Jesus' captors both to cause him pain and to mock his claim of authority.
The Crowning with Thorns is a painting by the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Made probably in 1602/1604 or possibly around 1607, it is now located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. It was bought in Rome by the Imperial ambassador, Baron Ludwig von Lebzelter in 1809, but did not arrive in Vienna until 1816. [1] [2]
The Crown of Thorns; The pillar or column where Jesus was whipped in the Flagellation of Christ; The whip(s), in Germany often birches, used for the 39 lashes; The Holy Sponge set on a reed, with which gall and vinegar were offered to Jesus; The Holy Lance with which a Roman soldier inflicted the final of the Five Wounds in his side