The flagellation of Christ
late 19th–early 20th century
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 7 3/16 × 7 3/4 × 9/16 in. (18.3 × 19.7 × 1.4 cm)
Classification
Sculpture-Bronze
Culture
Italian, Tuscany
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.190.2094
Tags
About the Artist
Donatello · 1380–1466
Important and very influential Florentine sculptor in the media of marble, bronze, and wood. Although he himself was not not a cultured intellectual (as was typical for artists of his generation and earlier), he associated with early Renaissance humanists in Florence, Rome, and Padua. In his art, he made new references to Antique forms, and to this added new expressive and technical virtuousity to...