Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del Libro (Madonna of the Book) 1480–1481 Tempera on panel, 58 x 39.6 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano This painting depicts the Virgin and Child reading a book that is only partially visible. The layout and decoration of…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) c.1495–1500 Tempera on wood, 106 x 71 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano The painting, one of the most dramatic realizations of Sandro Botticelli‘s late activity, depicts the moment in which…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (Calvary) 1475 Oil on panel, 52.5 x 42.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp The dead Christ hangs from the Cross on Golgotha, also known as Mount Calvary. The Virgin Mary is mourning at his…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ecce Homo (Christ Crowned with Thorns) c.1475 Oil and tempera on wood, 42.5 x 30.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York An artist of astonishing originality, Antonello combined a Netherlandish mastery of description with an Italian…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo 1547 Oil on slate, 69 x 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Although we do not know when Titian first treated this subject, it was probably in 1535, when he painted a Christ for Federico Gonzaga following a…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Casa de Nazareth (Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth) c.1640 Oil on canvas, 165 x 218.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Stories of Christ’s childhood and adolescence became increasingly popular during the Counter-Reformation…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Christ as the Man of Sorrows c.1492–1493 Oil on panel, 19 x 30 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe Bearing the marks of martyrdom and holding the instruments used to scourge him in his hands, a pensive, exhausted man crouches…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Ecce Homo c.1605 Oil on canvas, 128 x 103 cm Palazzo Bianco, Genova The canvas, the origin of which is still unclear, was recorded in the inventory of Palazzo Bianco in 1921 as being a copy by Lionello Spada of…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Incoronazione di spine (Crowning of Thorns) c.1603 Oil on canvas, 127 x 165.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna After interrogation by Pontius Pilate, Christ is made to wear a crown of thorns by the soldiers. He is thus mocked as King…