Christ crowned with thorns: on view at Victoria and Albert Museum

This sculpture of Christ crowned with thorns is relatively large. It was therefore probably made as a single religious image rather than as part of an altarpiece. Christ sits with his hands bound together and his head crowned with thorn branches. The thorns themselves consisted of nails and a good number of them remain. The architect and designer A. W. N. Pugin originally owned the figure. When the V&A bought it, records state that the bench was gilded and that 'Christ wears a dark-bluish black robe with ochre'. A later hand-written addition to the records (dated April 1933) states: 'Paint & gilding (modern) removed by Art Work Room'.

Christ crowned with thorns

About the sculpture

Particulars

In the same room · Sculpture 1300-1600, Room 27, Victoria and Albert Museum

On the same theme · Christianity

Yes, receiving visitors

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

The Virgin and Child, ca. 1550-1600

Virgin & Child, 1536

A Saint, ca. 1526-1533

Two mourning women, ca. 1525-1550

St Anne, The Virgin and Child, 1520-25

Virgin and child, ca. 1519-1528

the Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1515-1520

The Holy Family with St Anne, Joachim, Cleophas, and Salomas, ca. 1515-1520

White Crucifixion, 1938

Crucifixion of Christ, 1627

The Assumption of the Virgin, 1577–79

Saint George and the Dragon, 1434/35

Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, 1865

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, c. 1515

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1455

The Resurrection, c. 1619-20