Ecce Homo, XV / XVI century

Half-length polychrome wooden sculpture. This work, rendered expressive with extreme psychological realism, shows Christ in the moment in which, according to the Gospel of John, Pontius Pilate - governor of Rome - shows the crowd the Christ by pronouncing the famous phrase "Ecce Homo". The sculpture, made in technically according to the early medieval use, it has been emptied of the internal marrow to ensure that over time no cracks and fissures appear.The work is very simple in the sculptural structure and is entirely aimed at the representation, especially of the face slightly inclined towards the bass and in the exceptional construction of the tied hands. The intended pathetism is expressed by the face that is turned towards the observer. It seems that he arouses and increases the dramatic power as if the crowd were in front of the work that is in front of him at the moment in which Pilate was to express his judgment. Furthermore, the tied hands seem to show us the condition of Christ, in fact the right hand has the index finger turned towards himself, as if to urge us to observe the state in which he was reduced to save the whole of humanity. basic compositions of this sculpture which, in this way, fulfills the maximum focus of a psychological realism regardless of the volumes and shapes that are optimal. ASOR studio