Chapel 30 - The Flagellation

It depicts the scene of the Flagellation of Jesus.  
A previous chapel of the Flagellation already existed in the sixteenth century in the ancient Pilate Palace, located near the secondary entrance door leading to the Sacred Mount, demolished in the late nineteenth century. The remaining parts  of the paintings by Bernardino Lanino that decorated the walls are housed in the Picture-Gallery Museum of Varallo together with the wooden statue of the Flagellation of Jesus.
The new space, located on the ground floor of the new Pilate Palace ordered by Bishop Bascapè, was built after extensive excavation work to remove the rocks that were in this area of the mountain and was completed in 1610. In that year Bascapè asked for some of the wooden statues that were part of the ancient mystery to be brought there. Four terracotta figures completed in 1617 by Giovanni d'Enrico were added to the group, while the frescoes by the Valsesia-based artist Cristoforo Martinoli, also known as "il Rocca", were completed in 1620.