"Ecce Homo"  1610

Christ stands at the top of the stairs and is mocked by a Roman soldier, while the Roman governor Pontius Pilate gestures to the crowd, declaring, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him" (John 19:4). The Spanish painter Orrente's use of dark silhouettes for figures and architecture set into a narrow plane next to the surface of ...