Ecce Homo

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Ecce Homo

painting by Rouault

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Christology
Early 20th century to the present
…penetrating iconlike eyes of his Ecce Homo (1936) are particularly striking. Pablo Picasso’s Crucifixion (1930) and his ink drawing of Jesus (1959) evoke the medieval “man of sorrow,” a tradition of depicting Jesus bearing the wounds of his Crucifixion. Although Marc Chagall’s Red Pietà (1956) contains hardly any direct biblical…
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…penetrating iconlike eyes of his Ecce Homo (1936) are particularly striking. Pablo Picasso’s Crucifixion (1930) and his ink drawing of Jesus (1959) evoke the medieval “man of sorrow,” a tradition of depicting Jesus bearing the wounds of his Crucifixion. Although Marc Chagall’s Red Pietà (1956) contains hardly any direct biblical…
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