" ECCE HOMO"
By GUIDO RENI


" ECCE HOMO"
GUIDO RENI (1575-1642)
IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON

An interesting theory, which has often been put forward, is the question of the manner in which the character of an artist may affect his work. Does the frailty of a man reveal itself in the work of his mind and hands? Guido Reni is a painter who furnishes an example that the theorists may well ponder over. He was an inveterate gambler, and many who admire his work would censure him for the habit, Yet with it all he has produced such sermons in paint as have profoundly moved the generations of men throughout the world ever since his time. Here is one of the most poignant pictures ever conceived and put upon canvas, showing the " Man of Sorrows" in one of the acutest phases of His suffering:

.. Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head. and they put on him a purple robe. . . . Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, 'Behold the man '..

Guido painted innumerable pictures which are to be seen in all the principal European galleries. He studied under Calvaert and Ludovico Caracci, and went to Rome, first in 1599 and again in 1605. Here he worked for the Church, and one can imagine that the prelates welcomed him as a painter who could move the souls and stir the imaginations of their congregations. Through a quarrel with Cardinal Spinola concerning an altar-piece for St. Peter's, he left the Eternal City and migrated to Bologna, where he died.

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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Joseph Clark
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John Constable
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Jean Baptiste Camille
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The Fisherman's Hut


Jean Baptiste Camille
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A Flood


Leonardo Da Vinci
Monna Lisa


Edouard Detaille
The Dream


Henri Fantin-Latour
Flowers


Thomas Gainsborough
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Thomas Gainsborough
The Market Cart


Jean Baptiste Greuze
The Head of a Girl


Jean Baptiste Greuze
Fidelity


James Clark Hook
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Alfred William Hunt
Windsor Castle


Josef Israels
The Shipwrecked Mariner


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Madame Vigee Le Brun
Portrait of the Artist

Alphonse Legros
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Anton Mauve
Watering Horses


J.L.E. Meissonier
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Sir J.E. Millais
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Sir J.E. Mallais
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George Morland
The Reckoning


George Morland
The Inside of a Stable


Murillo
The Immaculate Conception
of the Virgin


Alfred Parsons
When Nature Painted
All Things Gay


Ralph Peacock
The Sisters


Rembrandt
Syndics of the
Cloth Merchants' Guild


Guido Reni
"Ecce Homo"


Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Mrs. Richard Hoare
With Her Infant Son


Briton Riviere
The Temptation
in the Wilderness


Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
Day Dreams


John Singer Sargent
Miss Ellen Terry
as Lady Macbeth


Lady Stanley
(Dorothy Tennant)
His First Offence


Jan Steen
Grace Before Meat


Marcus Stone
On the Road from
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Constant Troyon
Watering Cattle


H.S. Tuke
"All Hands to the Pumps"


Velazquez
King Philip IV. of Spain


S.E. Waller
Sweethearts and Wives


Thomas Webster
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