Pontius Pilate Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Post-medieval art==== [[File:What-is-truth02.jpg|thumb|left|[[Nikolai Ge]], ''What is truth?'', 1890]] In the [[modern period]], depictions of Pilate become less frequent, though occasional depictions are still made of his encounter with Jesus.{{sfn|Kirschbaum|1971|p=438}} In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Pilate was frequently dressed as an Arab, wearing a turban, long robes, and a long beard, given the same characteristics as the Jews. Notable paintings of this era include [[Tintoretto]]'s ''Christ before Pilate'' (1566/67 CE), in which Pilate is given the forehead of a philosopher, and [[Gerrit van Honthorst]]'s 1617 ''Christ before Pilate'', which was later recatalogued as ''Christ before the High Priest'' due to Pilate's Jewish appearance.{{sfn|Wroe|1999|p=38}} Following this longer period in which few depictions of Pilate were made, the increased religiosity of the mid-nineteenth century caused a slew of new depictions of Pontius Pilate to be created, now depicted as a Roman.{{sfn|Wroe|1999|p=38}} In 1830, [[J. M. W. Turner]] painted ''Pilate Washing His Hands'', in which the governor himself is not visible, but rather only the back of his chair,{{sfn|Wroe|1999|p=185}} with lamenting women in the foreground. One famous nineteenth-century painting of Pilate is ''Christ before Pilate'' (1881) by Hungarian painter [[Mihály Munkácsy]]: the work brought Munkácsy great fame and celebrity in his lifetime, making his reputation and being popular in the United States in particular, where the painting was purchased.{{sfn|Morowitz|2009|pp=184–186}} In 1896, Munkácsy painted a second painting featuring Christ and Pilate, ''Ecce homo'', which however was never exhibited in the United States; both paintings portray Jesus's fate as in the hands of the crowd rather than Pilate.{{sfn|Morowitz|2009|p=191}} The "most famous of nineteenth-century pictures"{{sfn|Wroe|1999|p=182}} of Pilate is ''What is truth?'' ({{Lang|ru|"Что есть истина?"|italics=yes}}) by the Russian painter [[Nikolai Ge]], which was completed in 1890; the painting was banned from exhibition in Russia in part because the figure of Pilate was identified as representing the [[tsarist]] authorities.{{sfn|Wroe|1999|pp=182–185}} In 1893, Ge painted another painting, ''Golgotha'', in which Pilate is represented only by his commanding hand, sentencing Jesus to death.{{sfn|Wroe|1999|p=185}} The [[Scala sancta]], supposedly the staircase from Pilate's praetorium, now located in Rome, is flanked by a life-sized sculpture of Christ and Pilate in the ''Ecce homo'' scene made in the nineteenth century by the Italian sculptor [[Ignazio Jacometti]].{{sfn|Hourihane|2009|p=392}} [[File:Pasión-Ecce_Homo.jpg|thumb|right|''Ecce Homo'' by [[Josep Maria Subirachs|Subirachs]] from [[Sagrada Familia|Basilica of the Sagrada Familia]] in Barcelona.]] The image of Pilate condemning Jesus to death is commonly encountered today as the first scene of the [[Stations of the Cross]], first found in [[Franciscan]] [[Catholic church]]es in the seventeenth century and found in almost all Catholic churches since the nineteenth century.{{sfn|MacAdam|2001|p=90}}{{sfn|MacAdam|2017|pp=138–139}}<ref>''The Catholic Encyclopedia'' (1907). s.v. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15569a.htm "The Way of the Cross"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091210/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15569a.htm |date=27 March 2019 }}.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page