The Flagellation is the moment when Christ, after having appeared before Pontius Pilate, is tied to a column and beaten with whips — a scene often depicted in art. Examples include Lorenzo Ghiberti's Flagellation on the east doors of the Baptistery of Florence (1403-1421); Fernando Gallego's in the Museo Diocesano, Salamanca (c. 1506); Jaime Huguet's in the Louvre, Paris (1450s); Sebastiano del Piombo's in San Pietro in Montorio, Rome (1516-1521); and Caravaggio's in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples (1607).
Historical dictionary of Renaissance art. Lilian H. Zirpolo. 2008.