The Bible In Paintings: ✝️ "ECCE HOMO" – HERE IS THE MAN ✝️

[Hebrews 11:6]

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"ECCE HOMO" –
HERE IS THE MAN

֎ Featuring 38 Paintings, 1 Relief and 2 Windows ֎

J O H N
«Chapter 19»

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him in the face.

Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “HERE IS THE MAN!”

1
JAMES TISSOT
"Ecce Homo!"

2
CARAVAGGIO
"Ecce Homo!"

3
FRANCESCO DE MURA
"Ecce Homo!"

4
QUENTIN MATSYS
"Ecce Homo!"

5
QUENTIN MATSYS
"Christ Presented to the People"

6
MIHÁLY MUNKÁCSY
"Ecce Homo!"

7
Detail

8
ANDREA MANTEGNA
"Ecce Homo!"

9
GUERCINO
"Ecce Homo!"

10
ADRIAEN VAN DER WERFF
Source

11
GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Ecce Homo!"

12
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Christ Presented to the People"

13
CRISTOVAO DE FIGUEIREDO
"Ecce Homo"

14
HONORE DAUMIER
"Ecce Homo"

15
LUCA GIORDANO
"Ecce Homo"

16
JOOS VAN CRAESBEECK
"Ecce Homo"

17
TITIAN
"Ecce Homo"

18
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
"Ecce Homo"

19
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
"Ecce Homo"

20
TINTORETTO
"Pilate Presents Christ to the Crowd"

21
SIMON BENING
"Ecce Homo"

22
REMBRANDT
"Ecce Homo"

23
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Ecce Homo"

24
South Netherlandish School
"Ecce Homo"

25
FRANS FRANCKEN the Younger
"Ecce Homo"

26
LUIZ MOTA OFICIAL
"Ecce Homo"

27
FRANCESCO SOLIMENA
"Ecce Homo"

28
Source

29
Source

30
"Ecce Homo"

31
GAUDENZIO FERRARI
"Ecce Homo"

32
FRA BARTOLOMMEO
"Ecce Homo"

33
French School
"Ecce Homo"

34
AGOSTINO CIAMPELLI
"Ecce Homo"

35
AMBROGIO DA FOSSANO
"Ecce Homo"

36
French School
"Ecce Homo"

37
REMBRANDT
"Christ Presented to the People"

38
ESTÊVÃO GONÇALVES NETO
"Ecce Homo"

39
CIGOLI
"Ecce Homo"

40
ANTONIO CISERI
"Ecce Homo"

→ a n d   f i n a l l y ←

41
ANDREY MIRONOV
"Via Dolorosa"

New International Version ©1984, EMPHASES added
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[Hebrews 11:6]

"ECCE HOMO" –
HERE IS THE MAN

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Good Morning, Dan.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Mary-Lou! As always, I’m grateful for your presence here.

[Sunsong]

Thank you once again for these latest paintings. They are, at the same time, incredible yet difficult to view.

The one by LUIZ MOTA and the last one especially...

[etabeta]

Great paintings, some disturbing but they indicate the reality of Jesus torture and suffering.
#1 Tissot
#6 Munkacsy
#39 Cigoli
#40 Ciseri
#41 Mironov

[ViLaLuz]

#26 by Luis Mota Oficial is the most realistic. His body was broken.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I must report that they get even tougher to view for a while yet.

That last one is by Mironov. Some of us have become huge fans of his work, with very good reason. There are more of his coming, which I commend to you.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I agree entirely. My take on Pilate’s meaning when he said, “Look at him!” is to display how savagely they had mistreated Him. Mel Gibson’s portrayal does justice to the reality, but I have been very disappointed at the effete representations of most artists, showing a nearly unmarked Savior.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thank you, Alba.

[Bookshelf]

Part of my enjoyment of your presentations is the presentation of new artists. I had never encountered Cigoli, “a painter of considerable intellectual accomplishment and a friend of the great scientist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), was the key artist in Florence in the late sixteenth century.”

[Hebrews 11:6]

I hardly knew any of the artists when I began, but commenters like you are educating me. I’m still an art ignoramus, but now I can at least fake it a little.

[AnAmericanMother]

Quintin Matsys had a real talent for painting "grotesques" - along the lines of Bosch but grittier. There's a real social line between the main actors, who are depicted realistically, and the rabble.

He does not disappoint here.

[AnAmericanMother]

I agree - Matthew makes plain that Pilate was trying to save Christ, both because he knew he was innocent and because of his wife’s dream. “Ecce homo!” - “Behold what you have done already - “

[Hebrews 11:6]

I was willing to post Matsys’ despite his disfigurements, but I rejected one of Bosch’s as being offensive in the extreme. So, we can argue which depicted the rabble more grotesquely, but when the rubber met the road I found for Bosch.

[Hebrews 11:6]

In Season 3 The Chosen briefly introduced both Pilate and his wife's dream, and Pontius comes across as ruthless but not ambitious. The writers appear to be laying the groundwork for, as you said, a "Pilate [who] was trying to save Christ".

[etabeta]

The majority of these religious paintings were commissioned by the Church. They were intended to foster meditation on Christ’ sacrifice and not to be shocked by all the blood and gory details. For myself the painting the other day by Bouguereau was much more impactful than a broken body covered by blood. Remember also that artists worked within the established traditions.

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and good morning to each of you.

#1 Tissot
#28 (Artist unknown)
#34 Ciampelli
#40 Ciseri

Greatly appreciate all of the comments and teaching.

Thank You Dan.

[InkStone]

Excellent etabeta; well explained indeed. Thank you.

[AnAmericanMother]

I prefer Matsys as his grotesques still have a connection (however tenuous) with reality. You can still find some of these folks - only slightly exaggerated - today. Bosch's depictions sort of spun off the planet into fantasy - but after all that was his specialty.

It's interesting that the Nederlandisch painters are the ones who went completely off the rails into grotesquerie. Wonder why?

I forgot to note that Tissot seems to fall into the "show no mercy to Pilate" category. His Pilate is effete, weak, and mocking. Not a tough call at all. The Pilate of Scripture should set us all wondering, "What will I do at my time of decision?"