Maestro Fiammingo

"Ecce Homo" ------- Flemish Master --------- Oil on panel ---------- Period: 16th century -------- Panel 35 x 40 frame 40 x 48 -------- Excellent condition ------------- Important painting on panel, depicting the suffering face of Christ with his head crowned with thorns in the most traditional image of the Ecce Homo. ---------- The gaze is vacant, with eyes half-closed in a resigned and disfigured attitude of pain. ------ Christ has been scourged, and Pilate presents him to the crowd horribly disfigured by the tortures he has suffered, uttering the famous words "Ecce Homo" ------------. It is one of the most representative and venerated Christian depictions in ancient painting, which has seen the great Masters of all Europe try their hand at its realization. Among these, the Spanish and Nordic painters, especially the Flemish, stand out for their intensity and dramatic realism ---------- The splendid panel is a classic example of 16th-century Flemish painting with strong influences from Spanish art, and condenses the pictorial characteristics of these two great schools. --------- The Author, operating between Haarlem and Antwerp in the first half of the 16th century, is inspired by paintings depicting the Christ "Ecce Homo" by Quentin Massys and Dieric Bouts, considered the greatest Flemish interpreters of this subject. ---------- The condition of the painting is excellent, with no lifting or falling of color, with an evident and pleasant craquelure that makes the work even more fascinating. --------