The Flagellation

One of a series of windows depicting the Passion of Christ, this panel shows the Flagellation of Christ in the center. The museum owns two other panels from the same set (Arrest of Christ and Christ Carrying the Cross). Here Christ, stripped and tied to a column, is beaten by men with a birch rod and a whip. The pane centered below shows a pedestal, as if supporting the image; and, that directly above represents the top part of a canopy. Together the central vertical group may have been intended to resemble a hooded lantern or reliquary. These center panes are flanked by ones with acanthus leaves supporting eagles. It appears that the individual panes have been trimmed down at some point, possibly compromising some original aspects of the design.