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Diptych with the Passion of Christ

c. 1400

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

This diptych, or two-panel painting, is hinged at the center so that it could be opened and closed and easily transported. It was clearly designed as an object for private devotion. The owner would have been able to contemplate the Passion of Christ and pray before these scenes. The top two images depict Christ’s scourging at the pillar and the crowning of thorns, while the lower two show Jesus before Pontius Pilate and in the Garden of Gethsemane. The scenes would have been read clockwise beginning with the lower right. On the back of these panels are remnants of paintings that have since been scraped off.

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  • Title: Diptych with the Passion of Christ
  • Date Created: c. 1400
  • Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 45.7 x 27 cm (18 x 10 5/8 in.); Including original molding: 52.4 x 34.3 cm (20 5/8 x 13 1/2 in.)
  • Provenance: Georg Joseph Strossmayer (1815-1905), Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Sale?: Byzantinische Schule, Frederick B. Pratt, New York, NY, Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.115
  • Medium: tempera and gold on wood oak
  • Fun Fact: This painting was probably not originally a diptych but part of a larger ensemble.
  • Department: Medieval Art
  • Culture: Austria, Styria, 15th century
  • Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
  • Collection: MED - Medieval Art
  • Accession Number: 1945.115
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