\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This work is a replica that the artist made of a canvas he had painted in 1580 for Toledo Cathedral. It illustrates an epis
ode from the Passion of Christ that is recounted in the Apocryphal Gospels; it is the moment when Christ is stripped prior to being crucified. The elongated forms and acid colors accentuate the drama of the scene.