# Fresco cycle: Passion of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ZUCCARO, Federico]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The most important brotherhood in Rome was that of the Gonfalone. It had its newly constructed oratory frescoed from 1568 to 1577, with many artists participating in the project. With the help of their cardinal protector, Alessandro Farnese, the members of the brotherhood were able to win over Jacopo Zanguidi, known as Il Bertoia, for the design of the decorative system. Painted Solomonic columns articulated a history cycle and supported an elaborate entablature, above which, in an upper zone of the wall, prophets and sibyls sit with scrolls, Old Testament kings, and virtues. The narratives of the paintings depict the Passion of Christ from the entry into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. The entrance wall emphasizes two scenes in which the depiction of Christ's physical pain is particularly striking: on the left Federico Zuccaro's Flagellation of Christ, and on the right Cesare Nebbia's Christ Crowned with Thorns. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Angels and Cherubim Among Clouds]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Flagellation of Christ]() - [Fresco cycle: Passion of Christ]() - [Portrait of Giambologna]() - [Portrait of Vincenzo Borghini]() - [Scenes from the Life of the Artist's Family]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [St Mennas]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()