Ecce Homo (Large Passion Series) / Albrecht Dürer

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Accession Number
1953/1.48
Title
Ecce Homo (Large Passion Series)
Artist Nationality
German
Artist Life Dates
(Nüremberg, 1471 - 1528)
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
Object Creation Date
1498-1500
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
Germany (nation)
Bavaria (state)
Mittelfranken (national district)
Nuremberg (inhabited place)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
Germany (nation)
Creation Place 3
Bavaria (state)
Creation Place 5
Nuremberg (inhabited place)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Inscription
Signed on plate, with monogram
Dimensions
39.4 cm x 28.6 cm (15 1/2 in. x 11 1/4 in.)
Primary Object Classification
Print
Physical Description
A crowd of men, rendered as a dense mass of bodies and faces that bristles with pikes and spears, gather before a porch attached to an ornately decorated stone building. A bearded man, wearing rich dress and a turban leans over the balustrade of the porch toward the crowd with his arms outstretched and his hands open as he turns his head to look at the man standing beside him. This sorrowful figure wears only a crown of thorns and a long robe that is partly opened by the man standing behind him to reveal his lean body flecked with drops of sweat or blood.
Subject Matter
This woodcut print depicts the episode from Christ's passion known as the "Ecce Homo," or "Behold the man," the words with which Pontius Pilate presented Christ after he had been beaten to the crowd gathered at his palace (John 19:5). Christ, naked except for the crown of thorns and a long robe, appears on a porch next to the turbaned figure of Pilate, who extends his hands toward the crowd in a gesture of presentation as he turns to look at Christ. The crowd, a dense mass of bodies and faces, bristles with menace.
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Record
1953/1.48
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"Ecce Homo (Large Passion Series); Albrecht Dürer." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1953-sl-1.48/1953_1.48.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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