Last year's post on Pontius Pilate is available by clicking here
Many see him as a barbaric, ruthless figure; some see him as a progressive man who tried to work with the Jews in Jerusalem, and some see him as a man who just wanted to get out of there;
a worldweary soldier who would rather be anywhere than Jerusalem during the religious fervour of Passover.
Left : Study of a Left Hand : Albrecht Durer
Nikolai Gee's brooding painting showing Christ and Pilate :Quod Est Veritas? (What is Truth?)
The original painting is in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It was banned in 1890, as were Gee's other late paintings about Jesus and the Crucifixion, because they showed a mocking Pilate and a powerless Christ pushed into the shadows.
Yet there is a dynamism in this painting that reverses their situations.
For Jesus is the one that is truly free and Pilate is the prisoner.
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