The coronation of thorns

Unknown artist

The artist copied Dürer’s woodcut “Die Dornenkronung,” designed around 1509, part of his “Kleinen Passion,” which was first laid in 1511, from the opposite side. Despite side traffic and motif changes, e.g. the architecture is opened, the orientation on the template is clearly visible. Christ, who was handed over to the Roman soldiers of Pilate for scourge and crucifixion, is also sitting. His tormentors have already surrounded him with a coat. While a scissor kneels down, stretches his tongue out and gives a stick in his hand as a scepter, two men forcibly put the crown of thorns on him. Christ endangers mockery and torment on an equal footing. Slightly offside, immersed in a conversation, Pilate and Caiaphas. There are no references to Dürer as the intellectual creator of the image idea, but the letter combination “VS” refers to the Nuremberg artist Virgil Solis in the lower right. Deductions with German letter text on the back bear witness to the once belonging of the woodcut to a book.