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Ecce Homo by Quentin Massys, ca. 1520

Ecce Homo (Latin for Behold the Man), were the words used by Pontius Pilate when he presented a scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to the hostile crowd shortly before the Crucifixion. It is the latin translation in the Vulgata of the Greek phrase ιδου ο ανθρωπος. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (625x800, 199 KB) // Beschreibung Summary Licensing Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ecce Homo ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (625x800, 199 KB) // Beschreibung Summary Licensing Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ecce Homo ... The Ugly Duchess by Quentin Matsys (1525-30) Oil on wood, 64 x 45,5 cm National Gallery, London Quentin Matsys, also known as Quentin Massys, Quentin Metsys or Kwinten Metsys (1466 - 1530), was a painter in the Flemish tradition, founder of the Antwerp school. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Ecce Homo (Behold the Man!), Antonio Ciseris depiction of Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus of Nazareth to the people of Jerusalem Pontius Pilate (Latin Pontius Pilatus) was the governor of the Roman province of Judea and Roman general from AD 26 until around AD 36, who is best... A scourge (from the Italian scoriada, ultimately from the Latin excoriare = to flay and corium = skin) is a whip or lash, especially one used in order to inflict corporal punishment. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Crucifixion is an ancient method of execution, where the victim was tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang there until dead. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The Vulgate Bible is an early 5th century translation of the Bible into Latin made by St. ...

According to the gospel of John (19:5), the Roman governor Pontius Pilate spoke these words when surrendering a scourged Jesus Christ over to the hostile crowd, because he could see no reason for Jesus' conviction. Jesus had been tortured, was wearing purple robes and a crown of thorns, and the crowd was pushing for his crucifixion. Ecce Homo therefore can also refer to any work of art in which Jesus is depicted wearing a crown of thorns. The King James Version translates this phrase as "Behold the Man!" The Gospel according to John is a gospel document in the canon of the New Testament. ... Ecce Homo (Behold the Man!), Antonio Ciseris depiction of Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus of Nazareth to the people of Jerusalem Pontius Pilate (Latin Pontius Pilatus) was the governor of the Roman province of Judea and Roman general from AD 26 until around AD 36, who is best... Crucifixion is an ancient method of execution, where the victim was tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang there until dead. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... This articles subsection called Criticism is missing references or citation of sources. ...

Ecce homo as an artistic motif

In christian art, ecce homo can refer to one of two themes: Christian art is art that spans many segments of Christianity. ...

• the actual illustration of the scene from John 19 (also called the scourging of christ) which depicts at least Pilate and Christ himself, as well as the mocking crowd and parts of the city of Jerusalem.

• devotional pictures with Jesus as a lone, standing half or full figure with a purple robe, loincloth, crown of thorns and torture wounds, especially on his head. If the wounds of the crucifixion are also depicted (Nail wounds on the limbs, spear wounds on the sides), we may then also speak of a Man of Sorrow(s) (also Misericordia). If Christ is sitting down (usually supporting himself with his hand on his thigh), we may refer to it as Christ at rest. Both depcitions are however often described by ecce homo.

The first depictions of the ecce homo scene in the fine arts appear in the 9th and 10th centuries in Syrian-Byzantine culture. Occidental depictions in the Middle Ages that often seem to depict the ecce homo scene, (and are usually interpreted as such) more often than not only show the crowning of thorns and the mocking of Christ, (cf. the Egbert Codex and the Codex aureus Epternacensis) which precede the actual ecce homo scene in the Bible.

Ecce Homo, Martin Schongauer, 15th century engraving

The motif found increasing currency as the Passion became a central theme in occidental piousness in the 15th and 16th centuries. The ecce homo theme was included not only in passion plays of middle-age theatre, but also in scenic illustrations of the story of the Passion, as in the Passions of Albrecht Dürer or the prints of Martin Schongauer. The scene was (especially in France) often depicted as a sculpture or group of sculptures; even altarpieces and other paintings with the motif were produced (by e.g. Hieronymus Bosch or Hans Holbein). Like the passion plays, the visual depictions of the ecce homo scene time and again portray the people of Jerusalem as anti-Semitic caricatures, characterized by excited gestures and hideous facial features. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (441x615, 75 KB) Martin Schongauer, Ecce Homo, Engraving 15. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (441x615, 75 KB) Martin Schongauer, Ecce Homo, Engraving 15. ... c. ... The Passion is the technical term for the suffering and Agony of Jesus that led directly to the Crucifixion, a central Christian event. ... ... c. ... Hieronymus Bosch; alleged portrait (around 1560) Hieronymus Bosch, (also Jeroen Bosch or Jerome Bosch) (c. ... Hans Holbein is the name of two German Renaissance painters: Hans Holbein the Elder (1460-1524) Hans Holbein the Younger (c. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...

The motif of the lone figure of a suffering Christ seems to be staring directly at the observer and enables him/her to personally identify with the events of the Passion arose in the late Middle Ages. A parallel development was that the simliar motifs of the Man of Sorrow and Christ at rest increased in importance. The motif was used repeatedly in later graphic reproductions (e.g. by Jackques Callot and Rembrandt van Rijn), the paintings of the Renaissance and the Baroque, as well as in Baroque sculptures. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history, and the most important United Provinces (Netherlands) painter of the seventeenth century. ... In the traditional view, the Renaissance is understood as an historical age that was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint. ...

In 1498, Albrecht Dürer depicted the suffering of Christ in the ecce homo scene of his Great Passionin unusually close relation with his self-portrait, leadting to a reinterpretation of the motif as a metaphor for the suffering of the artist. As a representation of the injustice of critique, James Ensor used the ecce homo motif in his bitingly ironic print Christ and the Critics(1891), in which he portrayed himself as Christ. ... James Sidney Ensor, Baron Ensor (April 13, 1860–November 19, 1949), was a Belgian painter whose unique portrayals of grotesque humanity made him a principal precursor of 20th-century expressionism and surrealism. ...

Ecce homo, Lovis Corinth, 1925

Especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, the meaning of ecce homo motif has been extended to the portrayal of suffering and the degradation of Man through violence and war. Famous modern depictions are: Lovis Corinth's later work Ecce homo(1925), which shows, from the perspective of the crowd, Jesus, a soldier and Pilate dressed as a physician, and Otto Dix's Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire (1948). Image File history File links Corinth_Ecce_homo. ... Image File history File links Corinth_Ecce_homo. ... Self-portrait with skeleton, 1896. ... Self-portrait with skeleton, 1896. ... Otto Dix (December 2, 1891 - July 25, 1969) was a German expressionist and anti-war painter and a veteran of the First World War. ...

The use of ecce homo as a quote

When Napoleon Bonaparte met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was supposed to have initiated the conversation with the words "Vous êtes un homme" (or "Voilà un homme"). The common interpretation of this exclamation as an ecce homo paraphrase in the sense of "Look, what a man" seems to be an overstatement; Napoleon could have expressed that simply by saying "Upon meeting you, I have finally met an especially intriguing man." Bonaparte as general Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution and was the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 to May 18, 1804, then as Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ...

Alluding to the biblical quote, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche named his Autobiography Ecce Homo. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (IPA:) (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900), a German philologist and philosopher, produced critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the positive and negative attitudes toward life of various systems of morality. ... Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (Ecce Homo: Wie Man wird Was Man Ist) is the title of the last original book written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche before his last years of insanity that spanned until his death in 1900. ...

As a pun, the phrase also refers to a controversial exhibition in Europe by the Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin in 1998, also named Ecce homo, which linked the phrase with the theme of homosexuality. The exhibition comprised 12 photographs which depicted Jesus with homosexuals and were based on well-known depictions in the visual arts. The actual ecce homo motif was not depicted in the photos. Elisabeth Ohlson (b. ... Ecce Homo photo depicting the Last Supper Ecce Homo was a controversial exhibition of 12 photographs taken by the Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin. ... The word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings over time. ...