flagellation

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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

“Obviously we’ve bought the portrait as Sackville and it is important to us as Sackville but somewhere underneath there is an Italian-inspired image of the Flagellation, which was really, really surprising for us,” said Cooper.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2013

The predella hung just below, contains four subjects—"Christ in Gethsemane," "The Last Supper," "The Betrayal," and "The Flagellation."

From Luca Signorelli by Cruttwell, Maud