"Christ with Crown of Thorns"

Rubens' painting shows the Roman governor Pilate presenting Jesus to the people: "Behold the Man!" Rubens reveals Jesus to us by having Pilate and the soldier remove the red cloth. He wears a crown of thorns and on his shoulders are the marks of the flagellation. Yet he doesn't seem to have much pain.

It is a frontal composition with Jesus in the foreground. Rubens may have been influenced by Ecce Homo's by Cigoli, Caravaggio and others.