Brewer's: Ecce Homo

A painting by Correggio of our Lord crowned with thorns and bound with ropes, as He was shown to the people by Pilate, who said to them, “Ecce homo!” (Behold the man!) (John xix. 5.)

Other conceptions of this subject, either painted or engraved, are by Albert Durer (1471-1528), Titian (1477-1576), Cigoli (1559-1613), Guido (1574-1642), Albani (1578-1660), Vandyck (1599-1641), Rembrandt (1608-1669), Poussin (1613-1675), and some others.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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