Flagellation of Christ

religious

The Flagellation is a wing of the Herrenbeg Altar in Herrenberg parish church. The Herrenberg Altar reflects the religious and social unrest of its day with a directness unequalled in any other work of German painting. Here, at an early point in time, the harmony of the High Renaissance has been destroyed in every respect.

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About the Artist

Jörg Ratgeb

1480 – 1526

German painter. active in Swabia. His few surviving paintings show him to have been closer in spirit to Grünewald than practically any of his contemporaries. The most important is the Herrenberg Altarpiece (Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1519), which has some harrowing Passion scenes. Ratgeb himself met a gruesome end - executed at Pforzheim for his part in the Peasants' War.

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