Christ Crowned with Thorns (van Dyck) Christ Crowned with Thorns (van Dyck) Christ Crowned with Thorns is a 1619-20 painting by Anthony van Dyck. He produced it aged 20 during his first Antwerp period, when he was the main studio assistant and pupil of Peter Paul Rubens. It shows Rubens' influence in its relatively sombre palette, chiaroscuro and highly realistic portrayal of musculature. He seems to have completed it early during his stay in Italy, since it also shows the influence of Titian and other Venetian painters in Jesus' face. Once it was complete, van Dyck offered the painting to Rubens, who declined it. It was
Christopher H. van Dyck Christopher H. van Dyck Christopher H. van Dyck (born 25 August 1955 in Wichita, Kansas, is the Founder and Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit (ADRU) at Yale University School of Medicine, where he is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience. His research uses brain imaging to learn about the progression of pathology in Alzheimer's disease, and to test potential new treatments for this disease. Christopher Hans van Dyck was born to Barbara Kroll Dyck and Walter Dyck, and has two brothers, Peter and Tim van Dyck. He grew up in Johnston and Underhill, Vermont, and attended Burlington High