flagellation

Example Sentences

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The incident occurred in the Church of the Flagellation, which is located on the Via Dolorosa, the route believed to have been walked by Jesus to his crucifixion.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2023

After a long, straight sequence of rooms, I arrived at Caravaggio’s “The Flagellation of Christ.”

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020

One example, by an unidentified artist, is a 14th-century North Italian drawing of the Flagellation of Christ whose gossamer refinement suggests the influence of Leonardo.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2017

As well as a Virgin and Child under Walsingham, researchers found A Flagellation of Christ under the Queen’s lord treasurer Thomas Sackville.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2013

It is of vast size, built in the Gothic style, and has a magnificent picture of Titiano, the Flagellation of Caravaggio, and in the sacristy a glory by Solimené.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various