Ecce Homo (Antonello da Messina)

Infobox Painting|

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title=Ecce Homo
artist=Antonello da Messina
year=1475
type=Oil on panel
height=48.5
width=38
city=Piacenza
museum=Collegio Alberoni

"Ecce Homo" is the title of a series of painting by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina. They date from 1470 [The date formerly visible on the ex-coll. Olivares painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.] 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 Don Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, marchese di Carpio and Conde-Duca di Olivares, Viceroy of Naples 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. [Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner, "Italian Painting: the Venetian School" (Metropolitan Museum) 1973:2, pl. 2).]
*b) Museo Civico, Piacenza, dated 1472.
*c) Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna, dated 1474.
*d) National Gallery of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa.

ee also

*Italian Renaissance painting, development of themes

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External links

* [http://www.mostraantonellodamessina.it/galleria/galleria_a_eccehomo.html Description] it icon