Ecce Homo (Antonello da Messina)
Ecce Homo
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| Artist |
Antonello da Messina |
| Year |
1475 |
| Type |
Oil on panel |
| Dimensions |
48.5 cm × 38 cm (19.1 in × 15 in) |
| Location |
Collegio Alberoni, Piacenza |
Ecce Homo is the title of a series of paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina. They date from 1470[1] 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 Art, acc. no.32.100.82.[2]
- b) Picture Gallery of Collegio Alberoni, Piacenza, dated 1472.
- c) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, dated 1474.
- d) National Gallery of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa.
See also
Notes
- ^ The date formerly visible on the ex-coll. Olivares painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ^ Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner, Italian Painting: the Venetian School (Metropolitan Museum) 1973:2, pl. 2).
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