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Questions for Bible study groups
- The first painting on this page – of Jesus before Pontius Pilate – is probably familiar. But the others are rarely seen. Why is the subject of Jesus before Pilate less popular with painters?
- Does the images of Jesus in these paintings fit with your personal image of Jesus? Why? Why not?
- Compare several of the images of Christ, eg Caravaggio’s, Bosch’s, Mantegna’s. Which artist has captured the Trial most effectively?
In brief: Jesus, charged with sedition and insurrection, appeared before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate. Pilate questioned Jesus, had him flogged, then presented him to a crowd assembled at the praetorium: ‘Look at this man!’ said Pilate. ‘I find no fault in him.’
But he killed Jesus anyway.
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The first of these two paintings by Matthias Stomer is labelled ‘Christ before Pilate’; the second, ‘Pilate washes his hands after condemning Jesus’. But the figure called Pilate is clearly a Jewish elder (Caiaphas?), not a Roman. Romans were always clean-shaven, not bearded: the word ‘barbarian’ comes from the Latin for ‘beard’.
Is it the painter’s mistake, or the art specialists’?
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