Italian school of the XVII century."The coronation of thorns".Oil on canvas.Size: 52 x 67 cm; 60 x 78 cm (frame).The theme of the mockery of Christ by several Roman soldiers and executioners, narrated in the New Testament (in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark), had great diffusion in the arts. The author of the present painting reduces to the maximum the narrative of the scene, presenting Christ already with the crown of thorns on his head, just placed by an executioner. Behind him, on a neutral background that highlights the corpulence of those represented, especially the figure of Christ, emerges a soldier in armor. It is a work heir to Caravaggesque tenebrism, in which the focus of light falls directly on the figure of Christ and on the back of the executioner, while the face of the latter, and practically that of the other soldier, are covered by a sober tone that barely allows his features to be discerned.