How does this artwork elucidate its Description?
At the top of the stairs leading to the palace, Jesus is standing, bared to the waist, an exhausted and powerless sufferer. He is being shown to the populace by Pontius Pilate, who is dressed in a blue Roman costume. As he questions the crowd who have assembled at the foot of the steps—a throng of warriors, in the middle of whom is a young blonde girl in white with her arm round a boy whom she draws towards her, in front a fat pharisee, on the right a few horsemen, a turbaned Oriental, each figure with its strongly marked type—the answer is thundered back to him, "Crucify Him!" They press half up the steps, they gesticulate and point at Jesus, they fling up their arms.
pharisee Pontius Pilate