GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Christ Crowned with Thorns is part of the series known as the Small Woodcut Passion. As Jesus continues the painful journey to his crucifixion, here he passively accepts his crown of thorns, which was meant to prolong his pain and mock his claim to be Son of God and Prince of Peace. The kneeling man cruelly hands him a sapling to carry in place of a scepter. Off to the side, Pilate and an official grimly watch the scene unfold.
In this engraving, the picture plane is noticeably flattened. In the foreground, Jesus is represented in profile and the other figures crowd around him; immediately behind them is an architectural colonnade. This compression of space pushes the scene outward and forces the viewer to confront Jesus’s dramatic suffering.
Adapted from
- Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy, March 2015.
- Carl Wuellner, DMA label copy, December 2003.
NOTES
Series- The Small Passion, alternate name- The Small Woodcut Passion; 1509-1511, published 1511
General Description: Sevelis from Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, Wuellner from Black Lines Only: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer
Added Saints and Monsters label copy to TMS as a text entry.
Changed the object name from Print to Woodcut. Changed the medium from Woodcut to ink on paper.
Add information to existing TMS label copy by Wuellner. The texts were written for "With Black Lines Only: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer" (December 21, 2003- March 28, 2004).
Deleted the text in the exhibition history field for "With Black Lines Only" because it was duplicated by an exhibition record already entered in TMS and related to this object.
DMA Friends Activity- puzzle brochures by Danielle Shulz and Tanya Miller for the Saints and Monsters exhibition- Fall 2015
HOW TO FIND THIS?
Added the following exhibition as to the exhibition history text field (because it was not a DMA exhibition). This exhibition was on a typescript page along with four other exhibitions and eleven Dürer object numbers. The other four exhibitions already have TMS records and are linked to the correct objects.
1982: "Depictions of the Advent in Early European Art," Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX, December 12, 1982- February 6, 1983
Provenance (not public)
n.d.: Colonel Henry Van den Bergh, London [1]
n.d.: his widow
Until 1971: Calvin J. Holmes, Dallas, TX, purchased from the above
From 1971: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, bequest from the above [2]
[1] The original registration card for this object in the DMA Collections Records Object File includes this line of provenance as the owner prior to Holmes acquiring the print for the Museum. The time period and transaction are not specified.
[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
Cultures
Geography
Depicted Location: Jerusalem (Israel): TGN: 7001371
Place of Origin: Nuremberg (Germany): TGN: 7004334
Process/materials
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Individuals
Jesus
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men
sitting
standing
kneeling
columns
colonnade
Christianity
interior space
arches
crown
thorns
soldiers
scepter
foreground
passion
monogram
picture plane
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AUDIO ASSETS
Josh Rose, Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Durer, gallery talk, June 17, 2015.
248141244: UMO
Connection made by confirming exhibition in TMS and Piction ID correct.
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WEB RESOURCES
- Inside Albrecht Dürer's Studio-Woodcut~Watch this demonstration and explanation of the woodcut process created by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute for the exhibition, The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer (November 14, 2010- March 13, 2011).
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General Description
Christ Crowned with Thorns is part of the series known as the Small Woodcut Passion. As Jesus continues the painful journey to his crucifixion, here he passively accepts his crown of thorns, which was meant to prolong his pain and mock his claim to be Son of God and Prince of Peace. The kneeling man cruelly hands him a sapling to carry in place of a scepter. Off to the side, Pilate and an official grimly watch the scene unfold.
In this engraving, the picture plane is noticeably flattened. In the foreground, Jesus is represented in profile and the other figures crowd around him; immediately behind them is an architectural colonnade. This compression of space pushes the scene outward and forces the viewer to confront Jesus’s dramatic suffering.
Adapted from
- Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy, March 2015.
- Carl Wuellner, DMA label copy, December 2003.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Inside Albrecht Dürer's Studio-Woodcut~Watch this demonstration and explanation of the woodcut process created by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute for the exhibition, The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer (November 14, 2010- March 13, 2011).
Notes
Series- The Small Passion, alternate name- The Small Woodcut Passion; 1509-1511, published 1511
General Description: Sevelis from Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, Wuellner from Black Lines Only: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer
Added Saints and Monsters label copy to TMS as a text entry.
Changed the object name from Print to Woodcut. Changed the medium from Woodcut to ink on paper.
Add information to existing TMS label copy by Wuellner. The texts were written for "With Black Lines Only: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer" (December 21, 2003- March 28, 2004).
Deleted the text in the exhibition history field for "With Black Lines Only" because it was duplicated by an exhibition record already entered in TMS and related to this object.
DMA Friends Activity- puzzle brochures by Danielle Shulz and Tanya Miller for the Saints and Monsters exhibition- Fall 2015
HOW TO FIND THIS?
Added the following exhibition as to the exhibition history text field (because it was not a DMA exhibition). This exhibition was on a typescript page along with four other exhibitions and eleven Dürer object numbers. The other four exhibitions already have TMS records and are linked to the correct objects.
1982: "Depictions of the Advent in Early European Art," Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX, December 12, 1982- February 6, 1983
Provenance (not public)
n.d.: Colonel Henry Van den Bergh, London [1]
n.d.: his widow
Until 1971: Calvin J. Holmes, Dallas, TX, purchased from the above
From 1971: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, bequest from the above [2]
[1] The original registration card for this object in the DMA Collections Records Object File includes this line of provenance as the owner prior to Holmes acquiring the print for the Museum. The time period and transaction are not specified.
[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
Cultures
Geography
Depicted Location: Jerusalem (Israel): TGN: 7001371
Place of Origin: Nuremberg (Germany): TGN: 7004334
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Jesus
Subject terms
men
sitting
standing
kneeling
columns
colonnade
Christianity
interior space
arches
crown
thorns
soldiers
scepter
foreground
passion
monogram
picture plane
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
AUDIO ASSETS
Josh Rose, Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Durer, gallery talk, June 17, 2015.
248141244: UMO
Connection made by confirming exhibition in TMS and Piction ID correct.
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