Ecce Homo

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Wood sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Store

Inventory

PV 07326

Material and technique

Sculpted and carved tilia wood, paint, gilding

Author

Roman School

Dating

Early 18th century

Dimensions

44 x 24.8 x 17 cm.

Origin

Tower-Wurts Collection (1933)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This bust, which came from the Wurts collection (W 1142), depicts Ecce Homo. Mounted on a moulded base, which is missing its front right corner, Christ is shown frontally to the viewer, whilst his head, which is slightly lowered, turns to his left, showing himself in three-quarter view. The work is finely executed, in the musculature, in the drapery of the golden cloak, which is tied at the front and lightly held with his hand, in the hair, whose locks fall on the shoulders and in the features of the face, which render both the expression of suffering and a delicateness typical of late Baroque sentiment. The work could be attributed to French sculptors, such as Pierre Le Gros, active in Rome in the first decades of the 18th century. Technical-scientific analysis carried out in 2009 by IVALSA-CNR in Florence identified the material used as tilia wood (Tilia sp.).

 Grazia Maria Fachechi - Cristiano Giometti 

Bibliography

Unpublished