3-098-384 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Christ between the Virgin and Saint John, c1475-c1480. Depiction of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, an image of piety that was particularly developed in the Flemish and Central European regions. The suffering figure of Christ with the crown of thorns and bleeding wounds is conceived in this type of subject matter as a call to personal meditation, an intention also pursued by the text written on the scroll.