Jesus led before the Court of Pilate for the First Time
The scene shows Jesus, bound, led to the first trial before Pilate, the Roman governor.
This chapel is located inside the Pilate Palace. It was built in the early seventeenth century by will of Bishop Bascapè to stage the main mysteries of the Passion of Christ.
The vault depicts episodes from the Old Testament (the prophet Daniel led to judgment before Darius, King of the Medes, and condemned) in close correspondence with the scene of the judgment of Christ shown below. The back wall depicts the "way of sorrow" that Jesus walked as he climbed his way to Calvary. Antonio d'Enrico, also known as Tanzio, worked on the paintings (1617-1618).
While his brother Giovanni, a sculptor, shaped the figures in terracotta (1615-1617). The result was an extraordinary combination of painting and sculpture. Especially the crowd on the right wall, partly painted and partly in relief, which follows Jesus to the hall of Pilate. This combination of painting and sculpture was already present in the chapel of the Wise Men conceived by Gaudenzio Ferrari.