- Source: Christ Crowned with Thorns (Annibale Carracci)
Christ Crowned with Thorns or Christ Mocked is a 1598–1600 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, now at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.
History
It is usually identified with a work mentioned by Giulio Mancini in his Considerazioni sulla pittura (1620), in which he refers to the artist painting a "Christ whipped and pulled by the hair for the chapels of the "manigoldi" in the manner of fra Bastiano [i.e. Sebastiano del Piombo]" as an angry riposte to comments from his patron Odoardo Farnese on the superiority of past painters over present ones. Odoardo then saw the work hanging on a wall of the Palazzo Farnese, mistook it for a work by Luciani and stated that it confirmed his previous assertion, to which Annibale immediately replied that the work's artist was by "the grace of God, [still] alive".
It is now attributed to Annibale Carracci, probably produced in Rome in 1598–1600, between his work on the Camerino Farnese and his starting work on the Galleria Farnese frescoes.
Like the rest of the Farnese collection, the work moved from Rome to Parma and finally to Naples. At the end of the 18th century, it passed to an English collector before going back on the market and being acquired by the Italian state for its present owner in 1951.
Dating
This remains controversial.
Gallery
References
External links
"Catalogue entry" (in Italian).
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Christ Crowned with Thorns (Annibale Carracci)
- Pietà (Annibale Carracci)
- Annibale Carracci
- Ludovico Carracci
- The Mocking of Christ (disambiguation)
- The Crowning with Thorns (Caravaggio, Vienna)
- Assumption of the Virgin (Annibale Carracci, Madrid)
- Venus, Adonis and Cupid
- List of art looted by Napoleonic armies
- The Rape of Proserpina
