1619
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Passion: Ecce Homo is a 1619 by Hieronymus Wierix, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This black-and-white print shows a shirtless man with a crown of thorns standing on a raised platform. Around him, a crowd of people in old-fashioned clothes reaches up toward him, while two men in robes point at him from above. In the background, a cityscape with simple buildings and a tower is etched in. The man’s bare chest and the rough texture of the crowd’s clothing stand out sharply against the smooth lines of the buildings. The scene looks tense, with the crowd’s hands grabbing at him. Next, look up Baroque to see how this dramatic style shaped art.
Hieronymus Wierix (1553–1619) was a Flemish engraver, draughtsman and publisher. He is known for his reproductive engravings after the work of well-known local and foreign artists including Albrecht Dürer. Together with…
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