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The Flagellation, with paved floor

Maker

Gian Marco Cavalli (engraver)
ca. 1454-after 1508

(designer)
1431-1506

Title

The Flagellation, with paved floor

Date of Production

1465 - 1470

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 44.2 cm
Width: 34.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.6

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Label Text

Breaking with tradition, this powerful engraving depicts the tortured Christ as vulnerable and afraid, recoiling as his tormentors scourge him. One of the first Italian artists to embrace printmaking, Mantegna was attracted by its potential for creating original compositions that disseminated his work to a wider audience. The sculptural quality of the bodies is achieved by modelling them with light and shade using a range of parallel lines. A preparatory drawing for the print also came to The Courtauld Gallery as part of Count Seilern’s Princes Gate Bequest.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Summer Showcase - Unfinished, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-20/09/2015

Bruegel to Freud: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 19/06/2014-21/09/2014

Literature

David Landau, 'Revisiting Mantegna', Print Quarterly vol. XXXVIII, no. 3, September 2021, pp. 251-288
pp. 258-62, 266, 273

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