# The Flagellation and The Crucifixion, from a Psalter

**German** (Braunschweig, Lower Saxony)  
about 1239  
Opaque watercolor, gold leaf, and shell gold, with pen and red and white ink (recto), and pen and red and black ink (verso), on parchment  
21.9 × 15.2 cm (8 5/8 × 6 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.671. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13230).

## About this work

German painted this in about 1239. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of opaque watercolor, gold leaf, and shell gold, with pen and red and white ink (recto), and pen and red and black ink (verso), on parchment.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Opaque watercolour.** Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
- **Gold ground.** Gold leaf laid over a red clay and burnished to a mirror shine, often tooled with punches so it flickers in candlelight. Behind sacred figures it stands for heavenly light.
- **Watercolour.** Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.

### [German](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/german)

Braunschweig, Lower Saxony

## Facts

- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: Germany
- Real size: about 8½ × 6 in (21 × 15 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 13th century
- Subjects: medieval
- Colour: olive
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118; 20 × 30 in $148; 24 × 36 in $178
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5; 24 × 36 in $5

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