Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers  1865

Throughout his career, Édouard Manet managed to shock and confound the public with his bold technique and unorthodox approach to subject matter. The most startling feature of his great religious composition [i]Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers[/i] is that it was painted at all. After the advent of the Realist movement in earlier nineteenth-century French painting, grounded in t...