Ecce Homo (Large Passion Series) / Albrecht Dürer
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1953/1.48
- Title
- Ecce Homo (Large Passion Series)
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer
- 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 4
- Mittelfranken (national district)
- 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.)
- Century
- Late 15th-Early 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- 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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- accessories worn on the head
- associated concepts
- bavaria (state)
- components and systems
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- europe (continent)
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- germany (nation)
- groups of people
- groups of people by activity
- headgear
- mittelfranken (national district)
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 867 x 1201
- File Size
- 286 KB
- 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 April 02, 2024.