Ecce Homo (Antonello da Messina)

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Medium Oil on panel Created 1470–1475 Genre Christian art Year 1475		Artist Antonello da Messina Period Early renaissance Subject Ecce homo

Dimensions 48.5 cm × 38 cm (19.1 in × 15 in) Location Collegio Alberoni, Piacenza Similar Antonello da Messina artwork, Christian art

Antonello da messina ecce homo 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 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.

b) Picture Gallery of Collegio Alberoni, Piacenza, dated 1472.

c) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, dated 1474.

d) National Gallery of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa.

References

Ecce Homo (Antonello da Messina) Wikipedia

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