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ID number: BIRBI-97.2 Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Artist / Maker: Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641) Title / Object name: Ecce Homo (The mocking of Christ) Object type: Print Place made: Antwerp Culture: Flemish Date made: about 1630 Materials: Etching with burin work by (?) Lucas Vorsterman I Provenance: Purchased April 1997 |
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This scene, from the Gospel of Matthew (XXVII, 27-29), is a key episode in the events leading to Christ’s crucifixion. Roman soldiers have stripped Christ and given him a scarlet robe, crown of thorns and reed sceptre, and now mock him, crying: ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’. In depicting this subject - and even more so in the closely related Ecce Homo (‘Behold the Man’, for which see Van Dyck’s painting in the Red Gallery) – artists since the Renaissance had generally shown Christ with an heroically muscular, naked torso, to represent at once both his humanity and his divinity. Notes: Third state. |
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