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As for the portrayals of the thorny crown piercing his head & face + the beatings endured after Pilate had first turned him over to be punished

Incidentally, I should have mentioned that, not only would his face (and head!) have been swollen by the blows, but add to that the additional damage done by those painful thorns.

Reminds me of that song by Dallas Holm, "The Day He Wore My Crown"!

>This may account for the fact that, after Jesus resurrection, the disciples on the road to Emmaus did not recognize him ...

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John 20:25-27

The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord."

So he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."

And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace to you!" Then He said to Thomas, "Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing."

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A flayed, walking corpse
would be plain to recognize.
The Gospel is clear

that Thomas looks to
two specific wounds. Nothing
grotesque is described...

Malcolm Muggeridge once wrote that the mockery of Jesus as the King of the Jews with his crown of thorns is reversed and turned upside down as a mockery of earthly kings from his Christian perpective. That crown of thorns and the sacrifice involved has more value to Christians than all the bejeweled head gear of all the nations throughout history. A world turned upside down indeed.