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Ecce Homo

Jheronimus Bosch

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Ecce Homo

techniek: Oil on Oak, 71.4 x 61.0 cm
locatie: Städel Museum, Frankfurt
accession number: 1577; BRCP Cat. 11 (pp. 224–235)

“Ecce homo”: Behold the man.The golden letters above Christ’s head spell out the words that Pontius Pilate spoke when he showed the Messiah to the Jewish people immediately before his crucifixion. A family of patrons is indistinctly visible in the foreground of this Passion scene. A kneeling man is detectable on the left, as are a monk and six boys. On the right, six girls’ heads can be discerned.
The family was apparently painted over when it passed from memory or from perceived importance. During a restoration in 1983, however, it was decided to remove the overpainting and to restore the original composition as much as possible. The patrons and the church or chapel for which the work was intended are unknown. This Ecce Homo depiction innovates on tradition, as it adds a cityscape that clearly betrays Bosch’s hand, being drawn in paint more than painted per se. Other details, such as the semihidden owlet in a niche high up on the wall, are also characteristic of Bosch.
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Literatuur en bronnenpublicaties

Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Ron Spronk, Luuk Hoogstede, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Hanneke Nap and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman. Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 2016, pp. 224-235.

Luuk Hoogstede, Ron Spronk, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Hanneke Nap and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman. Technical Studies, Brussels 2016, pp. 182-191.

Stefan Fischer, Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works, Cologne 2013, pp. 32-39, 242.

Charles D. Cuttler, ‘A Bouts-Bosch-Schongauer miscellany’, in Le beau Martin. Etudes et mises au point, Colmar 1991, pp. 133-140.

Roger H. Marijnissen and P. Ruyffelaere, Hieronymus Bosch: the Complete Works, Antwerp 1987, pp. 368-377.

Jochen Sander, ‘Die Entdeckung der Kunst’. Niederländische Kunst des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts in Frankfurt, Mainz am Rhein 1993 (tent. cat. Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie Frankfurt, 1993, pp. 68-71, 197 nr. 24.

Jochen Sander en Stephan Knobloch, Peter Klein, Niederländische Gemälde im Städel 1400–1550, Mainz am Rhein 1993, pp. 28-45.

Roger Van Schoute, Hélène Verougstraete and Carmen Garrido, ‘Bosch and his Sphere. Technique’, in Jos Koldeweij, Bernard Vermet en Barbara van Kooij (eds.), Hieronymus Bosch. New Insights into His Life and Work, Rotterdam 2001, p. 110.

Pilar Silva Maroto (ed.), Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Madrid 2016, pp. 222-224 (Jochen Sander).

Larry Silver, Hieronymus Bosch, New York/London 2006, pp. 147-150.

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