Chapel 32 - Jesus led to the Praetorian Palace

Here Jesus is depicted with a rope around his neck, led by the villains to the Praetorian Palace in front of Pilate.
The chapel is located in the Pilate Palace and was built later than the other chapels of mysteries housed in the building. Three painted wooden statues coming from older chapels were reused to set up the scene: Jesus and the villain who drags him with the rope were part of the wooden group of the chapel of Jesus stripped of his garments (which corresponds to the current Chapel of Mercy - Number 40) built in the early sixteenth century, and were sculpted by Gaudenzio Ferrari (about 1508), moved here after 1628 by order of Bishop Volpi, on the basis of the project for reorganizing the upper part of the Sacred Mount, wanted by Bishop Bascapè. The other four statues were shaped by the apprentices of Giovanni d'Enrico (about 1640). The walls were completed with paintings by the Valsesian Pierfrancesco Gianoli in 1657.