Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation, c. 1350-75. Workshop of Lorenzo Veneziano (Italian). Tempera and gold on parchment; sheet: x 21 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.). This miniature shows a moment of Christ’s Passion. After receiving his death sentence, Jesus was bound to a column, mocked, and tortured. While two fearsome henchmen beat Jesus with rods, he seems to look directly at the viewer and make a connection with them. The leaf comes from a rule book of a Venetian scuole, a mariegola. Scuole were guilds and lay associations mainly for religious purposes but also for trades and craft
Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation, c. 1350-75. Workshop of Lorenzo Veneziano (Italian). Tempera and gold on parchment; sheet: x 21 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.). This miniature shows a moment of Christ’s Passion. After receiving his death sentence, Jesus was bound to a column, mocked, and tortured. While two fearsome henchmen beat Jesus with rods, he seems to look directly at the viewer and make a connection with them. The leaf comes from a rule book of a Venetian scuole, a mariegola. Scuole were guilds and lay associations mainly for religious purposes but also for trades and crafts. Five of them were associations of flagellants, a radical movement that became particularly popular in the wake of the Black Death since the 1350s. Christ’s physical suffering served as their model for self-chastisement.
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