Flagellation, altarpiece, Church of Sant Miquel

The Flagellation, showing Christ, prior to his crucifixion, tied to a column and being whipped by 2 servants of Pontius Pilate, from the main altarpiece by Jaume Cicera and Guillem Talarn, 1450-51, in the Church of Sant Miquel, or Church of St Michael, churches of Sant Pere (St Peter), Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain. The church itself is a simple stone structure of Greek cross plan with 8 reused visigothic columns supporting arches around the central gallery. The Sant Pere complex consists of 2 churches (Sant Pere and Santa Maria) and a baptistery (Sant Miquel, following the Byzantine model. They were built close to the site of old Egara to be the seat of the Egara diocese, founded c. 450 AD. The buildings were completed in the 11th and 12th centuries in Romanesque style, on the site of pre-Romanesque buildings from the Visigothic period. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13448264

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45389558

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3972px x 3546px (4.8MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen