Ecce Homo

Anonymous, German, 17th century

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This scene may have an as yet undiscovered engraved scene. Full of picturesque touches such as are met with in the work of Lucas van Leyden, the relief has a different spirit from the decorative reliefs on the frame, which are in the lobate style of the Utrecht goldsmith Paulus van Vianen and his followers. The arms of Pope Alexander VII at the bottom were added later. A letter in a seventeenth-century hand, affixed to the back, states that Alexander conferred an indulgence on the relief.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

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