Ecce Homo (Mantegna)

Ecce Homo
ArtistAndrea Mantegna
Year~1500
Mediumtempera on canvas
Dimensions72 cm × 54 cm (28 in × 21 in)
LocationMusée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France

Ecce Homo is a painting by the Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna.[1] It is conserved at Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris.[2] It depicts the presentation of Jesus Christ crowned with thorns.

Characters

Besides Jesus, five people are represented: two on the left, one on the right, and two behind. The person on the left is supposed to be a Jew, and the one on the right in a turban, an old woman.

Text

In the painting, two messages can be seen in Latin script: Crvcifige evm[.] tolle evm[.] crvcifige crvc[...] ("crucify him, trap him, crucify [in the cross]") to the left and to the right the similar Crvcifige evm crvcifige tolle eṽ crvcifige ("crucify him, crucify, trap him, crucify"). The text on the left is pseudo-Hebrew in cursive script.

References

  1. ^ "The "maniera moderna"". Louvre. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Ecce homo". CultureSpaces. Retrieved 14 April 2019.