User:DarcyDU/The Crowning with Thorns (Titian, Paris)

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The painting was commissioned by the confraternity of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It was brought to France after the Napoleonic conquest of the city in 1797, during the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars. '''The painting was left in the Louvre when the Allied Controllers returned art back to Italy in 1815. '''

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This is the scene in which Christ's tormentors twist the crown onto his head with their canes, the scene is captured in the painting with the use of many colors, which especially in the blue and green to the right are colder than usual in deference to Titian's Roman sources. In Christ's foot extended on the steps, however, Titian uses Venetian techniques to emphasize the blood flowing through the veins under the flesh. The pattern of the canes slices through the massed figures like the strokes of a knife, forming a Trinitarian triangle to the right of Christ's head. An inimitable Titian touch is the cane lying unused on the foremost step, still. shadowless and deadly, like a snake. * Note: These are sections I will add*

 Sculptural references in the painting 

Laocoön or Laocoön and His Sons

Sculpted by Agesander of Rhodes or Hagesandros, Athanadoros and Polydoros in marble. Laocoön and His Sons depicts the story of the Trojan Priest and his two sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being killed my sea serpents. There are multiple versions  of his story with variation on why, how, if and by whom he was killed.

Belvedere Torso

Sculpted by Apollonios in first century B.C. It is not known who is depicted in the statue, but the most popular speculation is the Greek hero Ajax thinking over his own suicide.

Bust of Tiberius Caesar

There are multiple busts created of Tiberius Caesar as he was the emperor of Rome from 14-37 AD. The bust is depicted at the top right of the painting.

 Details 

The piece was drawn out on the canvas before being painted. Jesus himself is very bright suggesting a white base. The dimensions of the painting are askew making the figures pop out.

 Titian’s The Crowing with Thorns (Munich) 

Titian’s The Crowing with Thorns (Titian, Munich) located in Alte Pinakothek Munich Germany is painting by Titian and has the same name. The date of creation of this painting is 1576, 34 years after the first; Titian was around 80 years old nearing death which may explain the change in feel. This one differs in the colors, they are muted and the painting is overall more grey. The bust of Tiberius is also missing.