{
  "accession_number": "62.24",
  "art_champions_text": null,
  "artist": "Artist: Luis de Morales (called El Divino)",
  "catalogue_raissonne": null,
  "classification": " Paintings",
  "continent": "Europe",
  "country": "Spain",
  "creditline": "The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund",
  "culture": null,
  "curator_approved": 0,
  "dated": "c. 1560",
  "department": "European Art",
  "description": "Religious. New Testament. Jesus Christ seated wearing a crown of thorns, meditating quietly on the Passion. Cross building tools are on the floor surrounding him (hammer, awl, nails and broom).",
  "dimension": "25 3/8 x 18 1/4 in. (64.45 x 46.36 cm) (panel)\r\n31 in. (78.74 cm) (diagonal)\r\n24 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (62.87 x 44.45 cm) (sight)\r\n37 × 30 1/2 × 3 in. (93.98 × 77.47 × 7.62 cm) (outer frame)",
  "id": "http://api.artsmia.org/objects/1476",
  "image": "valid",
  "image_copyright": "",
  "image_height": 8633,
  "image_width": 6115,
  "inscription": "",
  "life_date": "Spanish, about 1509–1586",
  "markings": "",
  "medium": "Oil on panel",
  "nationality": "Spanish",
  "object_name": "Painting",
  "portfolio": "From ",
  "provenance": "",
  "restricted": 0,
  "rights_type": "Public Domain",
  "role": "Artist",
  "room": "G341",
  "see_also": [
    "1476",
    "18539"
  ],
  "signed": "",
  "style": "16th century",
  "text": "With legs crossed and chin cupped in hand, Luis de Morales’s Jesus is both regal and melancholic. He sits among the instruments of his torture and death: the column to which he was tied during the Flagellation and the cross that he carried and to which he was nailed. But rather than recreating the narrative of his sufferings, the painting shows Christ removed from those events, meditating on the objects that had inflicted his pain. As such he serves as a model and mirror image for the pious beholder of the painting.",
  "title": "Man of Sorrows"
}