Geißelung Christi

The Master of the Freising Passion depicted this Flagellation of Christ around 1485 for the cathedral at Freising. The scene of Christ scourged at the column was one of the most physically brutal episodes in the Passion cycle. The Freising Master's emotionally charged treatment of this subject exemplifies the intense devotional art of late fifteenth-century Bavaria. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting.

Oil on panel with dramatic rendering of the scourging scene. The tormentors' violence and Christ's suffering are depicted with the emotional intensity characteristic of the Freising Master.