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Description: | The Roman ruler Pontius Pilate has just condemned Jesus to death. He is washing his hands of responsibility, demonstrating that he feels he was forced into this act.Jesus can be glimpsed in the background being taken off by soldiers. The story was told in the Gospel of St Matthew. A candle outside the scene lights the figures from the left, and casts dramatic highlights and shadows. The picture is in the style of the Dutch artist Hendrick Terbrugghen, who was influenced by the dramatically lit paintings of the Italian painter Caravaggio. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art movement artists oil paintings art men | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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