Ессе Homo
unknown (South German School)
Basic information
- ID
- С-I-236
- Author
- unknown (South German School)
- Name
- Ессе Homo
- Date of creation
- early 16th c.
- Country
- Germany
- Culture
- Late Renaissance
- Technique
- carving
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 45 x 35
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture sculpture (relief)
- Genre
- religious
- Plot
- Ecce homo
- Provenance
- Collection of Leon Pininski
Information about author
Object description
"Ecce Homo" ("Behold the man") were the words of Pontius Pilate, the procurator of Judea, as he showed Jesus Christ in the scarlet robe and crown of thorns to the people of Jerusalem after the scourging, hoping for pity. The event occurred in the late morning of Good Friday in the Jerusalem Praetorium, near the tower of the Castle of Antonia. In the iconography of Jesus Christ, "Ecce Homo" is the name of a type of image that belongs to the cycle of the Passion of the Lord: Jesus is suffering in a crown of thorns, with thorns digging into his skin, bloodied after being scourged, with a branch symbolising a sceptre in his hands and a scarlet robe put on his shoulders by Roman soldiers. In the relief from the Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery collection, Christ is depicted in three-quarters, among the guards, against the background of a conventionally designated wall. The image belongs to the German School of Sculpture of the early 16th century, as evidenced by the narrative nature, squat proportions, and human figures' rigidity.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
