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  • NEW WORLDS – Ecce Homo

  • »Behold the man!« Honoré Daumier was known throughout his life primarily as a caricaturist. With ›Ecce Homo‹, he transfers his satirical style to the canvas and gives the unfinished painting a sculptural quality. The Latin title stems from the Gospel of John and has enjoyed an illustrious presence in art history since then. On the one hand, it describes the scene of Pontius Pilate’s »presentation of Christ«, depicting Jesus and the people of Jerusalem mocking him. On the other hand, it is used for devotional pictures portraying the suffering Christ as a half figure or as a standing whole figure. Time and again, the Christian pictorial tradition has inspired artists to develop new means of expression in order to give Man a tangible form in his fallibility and vulnerability.
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Works
Bambino ebreo
The Circle of the Lustful. Paolo and Francesca
The Circle of the Thieves; Agnolo Brunelleschi Attacked by a Six-Footed Serpent
Ecce Homo
Le Christ marchant sur la mer
Christus