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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
Print

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.

Ecce Homo

1515

Albrecht Dürer

(German, 1471–1528)
Germany

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