Christ Gathering His Garments after the Flagellation

Juan Correa (c. 1645-1737) was a Mexican painter known as one of the most important painters of the colonial Mexican Baroque, whose religious paintings combine the European Baroque tradition with the colonial Mexican manner that distinguishes the best painting of New Spain. Christ Gathering His Garments after the Flagellation from the c. 1670s depicts Christ after the flagellation in the dramatic, emotionally intense manner that distinguishes Mexican colonial painting from the more restrained European Baroque. The c. 1670s date places this in Correa's early period, when he was developing the dramatic, emotionally intense style that would make him one of the most important painters of colonial Mexico.

Christ Gathering His Garments after the Flagellation is important in the history of colonial Mexican painting because it demonstrates the dramatic, emotionally intense manner that distinguishes colonial Mexican painting from the more restrained European Baroque. Correa's treatment of the flagellation subject shows the colonial Mexican manner at its most dramatically intense, creating a type of religious painting that is simultaneously European in tradition and colonial in emotional intensity.

Christ Gathering His Garments after the Flagellation is Correa's colonial Mexican Baroque: Christ after the flagellation rendered in the dramatically intense, emotionally powerful manner that distinguishes colonial Mexican painting from the more restrained European Baroque. The c. 1670s painting shows colonial Mexican religious painting at its most dramatically intense.