# Ecce Homo

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## Artwork

- Artist: [OVERBEKE, Adriaen van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/overbeke-adriaen-van-rd504ef1ef85285>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on panel, 68 x 56 cm \(central panel\)

## Commentary

The central panel of this triptych depicts the Ecce Homo, a popular subject in the 15th-16th centuries. On the side panels the donors are represented in a sober, classic style, under the protection of their patron saints, John the Baptist and Alice. The latter is Alice de Schaerbeck \(c. 1225-c. 1250\) a Cistercian nun who became a leper \(hence the cut-off hands\). The triptych was executed in the large workshop of Adriaen van Overbeke in Antwerp.

## Related artworks

- [The Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/overbeke-adriaen-van-rd504ef1ef85285/the-adoration-of-the-magi-r55edd5441ff99f>)

## Attribution

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