The Flagellation of Christ

The Flagellation of Christ is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio (1571–1610), now in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples. It is dated to 1607, and may have been reworked by the artist in 1610. It is not to be confused with Christ at the Column, another Flagellation by Caravaggio of the same period. According to Bellori (1672), this work was commissioned by the important di Franco (or de Franchis) family for a chapel in the church ... more

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Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. Trained in Milan under...

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