Jesus before Pilate – Nikolai Koshelev – First Station of the Cross – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):18x24 Rolled Poster - Satin Finish and there are seven children

and there are seven children in the painting because that's how many children they have

the Reformation prevented their publication in print

Although this picture is very quiet

" That was a theological concept priests knew but not the peasantry

Jesus before Pilate – Nikolai Koshelev – First Station of the Cross – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):18x24 Rolled Poster - Satin Finish and there are seven childrenJesus stands before Pilate. His Passion is just beginning. Pilate is deciding to have him tortured him for a while to perhaps avoid killing him. This is the moment of the beginning of his judgement by Pilate, more or less the 1st Station of the Cross, which is often shown after the torture with a bloody Christ and Pilate washing his hands. The Russian painter Nikolai Koshelev (1840 1918) had spent a couple of years in Rome (188081) where we assume he