# Ecce Homo

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MORETTO da Brescia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 215 x 0125 cm

## Commentary

In this altarpiece, commissioned by the Confraternity of the Holy Cross for their chapel in Brescia Cathedral, Moretto placed the Cross and the pathetic figure of Christ accusingly before the worshipper, the weeping angel in the background demonstrating an appropriately repentant and grieving response. Very limited in its palette and chilled by a gray, sepulchral light, the altarpiece was probably inspired by contemporary devotional books.

## Related artworks

- [A Saint Monk](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/a-saint-monk-r39b9659ea65af4>)
- [Allegory of Faith](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/allegory-of-faith-r3c4ff9e34ce1f0>)
- [Count Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/count-fortunato-martinengo-cesaresco-re8a0726847b946>)
- [Female portraits in front of landscapes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/female-portraits-in-front-of-landscapes-r57f9f7a3a4cc40>)
- [Female portraits in front of landscapes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/female-portraits-in-front-of-landscapes-r64a04293740fb8>)
- [Female portraits in front of landscapes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/female-portraits-in-front-of-landscapes-rff7c34508da6e8>)
- [Holy Family](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/holy-family-rbdc91f3fa82111>)
- [Madonna with Child and St Anthony](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/madonna-with-child-and-st-anthony-r8d98b6a3e4bd10>)
- [Madonna with Child and the Young St John](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/madonna-with-child-and-the-young-st-john-r66940d74dfbd82>)
- [Pietà](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/piet-rf140f4bf6e5407>)
- [Portrait of a Boy with his Nurse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/portrait-of-a-boy-with-his-nurse-rd5fdbddf5ba7be>)
- [Portrait of a Dominican, Presumed to be Girolamo Savonarola](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/moretto-da-brescia-rfe1f85b72cdc5c/portrait-of-a-dominican-presumed-to-be-girolamo-savonarola-rada736de417dd7>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)