Cleveland Museum of Art
Ecce Homo
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- 1515
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 102535
From LinkedCulture
In this 1515 engraving, Albrecht Dürer captures Christ's clenched, strained body as he stands before a crowd, surrounded by soldiers and a distant cityscape etched with extraordinary precision. Working a burin directly into copper, Dürer built up crossed lines at shifting angles to create shadows and textures that rival painting. The contrast between Christ's visible anguish and the cloaked figure beside him standing with cool indifference makes the scene quietly devastating. This print, from the Engraved Passion series, set a benchmark for European printmaking that lasted generations.
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A man with a crown of thorns is being led away by soldiers.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This scene of the presentation of Christ to the people, or ecce homo (“behold the man”) from the Engraved Passion series exemplifies Albrecht Dürer’s instinct for the graphic possibilities of the engraved line. Working with a burin on a copperplate, he crossed lines at different angles and varied the thickness of the lines to create dramatic tonal areas and highly descriptive textures. In this closely cropped composition, the focus on Christ’s clenched and pained body as he stands in judgment before a crowd contrasts with the disinterest emanating from the man standing calmly before him.
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- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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