It is the work of an anonymous master among major exponents of the school of Cologne founded in the first hall of the 15th century. This painting is half way between the international gothic (still prescnt in the gold background, in the disproportion between veil and angels and between the latter and the saint) and the renaissance realism (already present in the Veronica's gesture or in some sorrowful expressions of` the angels in the foreground).

The whole composition dominated by the veil of the saint (it takes more the half of the painting and it becames a sort of column behind and in front of which you can see the figures of the scene) attracts the attention towards the face of Christ, whose sorrow is emphasised by the blood flowing from the frontand from the crown of thorns which looks like a hedge.

"When they luck on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him as one weeps owr a first born.(Zech. 12,10)