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Ecce Homo

1515

Albrecht Dürer

(German, 1471–1528)
Culture
Germany
Medium
engraving
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1921.1168
Catalogue raisonné
Meder 10
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Description

This scene of the presentation of Christ to the people, or ecce homo (“behold the man”) from the Engraved Passion series exemplifies Albrecht Dürer’s instinct for the graphic possibilities of the engraved line. Working with a burin on a copperplate, he crossed lines at different angles and varied the thickness of the lines to create dramatic tonal areas and highly descriptive textures. In this closely cropped composition, the focus on Christ’s clenched and pained body as he stands in judgment before a crowd contrasts with the disinterest emanating from the man standing calmly before him.
A vertically oriented print in dense black-inked fine lines depicts a man with bound hands and a crown of thorns on a stone platform. A bearded figure in a turban stands beside him, gesturing toward a man in a long light-colored cloak. In the background, several bearded men stand near a wooden cross. Fine, intersecting lines create texture and shadow throughout. A monogram is visible on the lower stone step.

Ecce Homo

1515

Albrecht Dürer

(German, 1471–1528)
Germany

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