Object Literature
This type of art had the immediacy and drama then that movies have today for modern audiences with the most humble of peasants being able to relate to what they saw, namely birth, suffering and death to their own life in their village.
Ecce Homo, ‘Behold the Man’, shows Jesus stripped and brought before the people by the members of the Roman council, who are flanked by soldiers. The people mock and jeer Jesus, who wears a Crown of Thorns. His hands are bound with shackles, while the redness of the now raw flesh on his legs, hands and chest attests to the fact that he has been beaten with a scourge. As Jesus is shown here looking down it is probably when looking down at the Roman soldiers throwing dice for His seamless garment, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
A bust of good size, weight and quality and undoubtable decorative punch.