The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Ecce Homo
1515
Location: not on view
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.- McK., W. McC. "Print Club's Little Passion by Dürer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 8, no. 9 (1921): 132-34. Mentioned: pp. 132-134 www.jstor.org
- A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019).16th Century German Engravings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1938-January 22, 1939).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1921.1168