Passion (painting)

See also: Passion

The Passion is a topic employed in a recurring way in the Christian art pictorial. In the Christianity, the Passion of Christ or the Passion (with a capital letter) indicates the whole of the events of the life of Jesus of its arrest right after the last Cène, with its death on the cross.

Stages of Passion

Jean, which was the youngest Apôtre, was the only one of the twelve apostles present at the foot of the cross, with Marie, and its account is regarded as nearer to reality.

Here stages summarized according to the Gospel according to Jean (oecumenical translation of the Bible):

  1. Jesus is stopped

  2. : (...) “Judas thus took with him a detachment of soldiers, and guards sent by the chiefs of the priests and the Pharisien S.” (...)
  3. Jesus is led in front of the high priest
  4. * Jesus is disavowed by Pierre.
  5. * Jesus is questioned by the high priest.
  6. * Jesus is disavowed by Pierre for the second and the third time (the Coq sings).
  7. Jesus is taken along to Pilate
  8. * one takes along Jesus from Caïphe to the residence of the Roman governor Pilate.
  9. Pilate yields to crowd and condemns Jesus
  10. * Jesus is questioned by Pilate.
  11. * Jesus is whipped and crowned spines.
  12. * Jesus is questioned by Pilate for the second time.
  13. Jesus is crucifié
  14. * Jesus carries itself his cross and goes up to the Golgotha (which results in Calvaire, i.e. Crâne).
  15. * it is placed between two small drainage canals.
  16. * the cross carried the inscription INRI for “Jesus de Nazareth, king of the Jews”.
  17. * the Jewish priests said to Pilate that it would have been necessary to write: this man said: “I am the king of the Jews” (the Blasphème was the reason for charge of Jesus).
  18. * clothing of Jesus is drawn with the fate.
  19. * the mother of Jesus was there.
  20. *: There was Marie, mother of Jesus, with his sister Marie woman of Clopas, and Marie-madeleine. Close to Marie the " was held; disciple that Jesus aimait". Jesus, seeing his mother, and close to it the disciple whom he loved, says to his mother: " Woman, here your fils". Then he says to the disciple: " Here your mère".
  21. * Jesus dies on the cross.
  22. the side of Jesus is bored of a blow of lance
  23. : The Gospel according to Nicodème reveals the name of the centurion who carried the blow: Longin ( Longinus ). This lance is called Sainte Lance
  24. Jesus is put at the tomb

The Passion represented in the churches

The stages of the Passion are usually called Chemin of cross.

They are represented inside the churches, generally in the side alleys, on each side.

They are representations out of stone or wood carved, or many Peinture S.

There exist also ways of cross outside the churches, around the places of pilgrimage for example.

Representations of the topic

In painting


The ways of cross, when they are painted, comprise the 14 stages defined since the 16th century (see Chemin of cross).

The paintings carried out on order except ways of cross generally represent the following scenes:

  • the judgment, moment when Pilate shows Jesus with crowd: Ecce Homo
  • scourging: to note that the table of Piero della Francesca often called the Scourging of Christ, (actually the dream of Saint Jerome represents - given to sourcer),
  • the Crucifixion, scene generally represented in painting,
  • moment when the Virgin Mary collects the body of Jesus deceased: Pieta,
  • the setting with the tomb.

In frescos


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