This is the fifth meditation on the various panels of the Passion of Christ fresco in the church of Tenna, Switzerland. The fresco was painted by an unknown artist around 1408. It was intended as an illustrated bible for the predominantly illiterate settlers and mountain farmers in this remote valley of Switzerland.

An elegantly robed man enthroned in the center, surrounded by two colourful sidekicks. They push with rods on his head. Neither the man in the middle, nor the actors dancing on either side seem to be happy.
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