The impressive, almost life-size devotional "Christ in Distress" by Adrian de Vries eloquently expresses a crucial passage in the story of Christ's Passion in which the Son of God has sacrificed himself to redeem mankind. This is identified by a Biblical quotation from Paul's first Epistle to the Corinthians: "EMPTI ESTIS PRETIO MAGNO" (For you are bought dearly). There is no scriptural source for the subject depicted. Christ, sitting on a rock, folding his hands and asking for mercy, seems to be waiting for Pilate's men. The suffering to come shows clearly in his face. This sculpture derives its expressive force from the contrast between Christ's suffering features and the classical beauty of his athletic body. The pose with crossed legs goes back to a famous woodcut of the Man of Sorrows by Albrecht Durer. (http://www.liechtensteinmuseum.at)