Ecce Homo (Antonello da Messina)
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Ecce Homo is the title of a series of paintings by the Italian Renaissance
master Antonello da Messina
. They date from 1470 to 1475.
Antonello is known to have treated this subject four times; three (b, c, d) are variations of the same design; a fourth (a) differs.
Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...
master Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina
Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Italian Renaissance...
. They date from 1470 to 1475.
Antonello is known to have treated this subject four times; three (b, c, d) are variations of the same design; a fourth (a) differs.
- a) Christ Crowned with Thorns, in the collection of Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquis of Carpio in 1687; Don Giulio Alliata, Palermo, 1698, when it was said to bear the date 1470, now illegible; ...Michael Friedsam, New York; Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, acc. no.32.100.82. - b) Picture Gallery of Collegio Alberoni, PiacenzaPiacenzaPiacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza...
, dated 1472. - c) Kunsthistorisches MuseumKunsthistorisches MuseumThe Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome...
, Vienna, dated 1474. - d) National Gallery of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa.