French school; first half of the XVII century."The Judgement of Jesus in the Sanhedrin".Oil on canvas. Re-drawn.

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  French school; first half of the XVII century. "The Judgement of Jesus in the Sanhedrin". Oil on canvas. Re-drawn. Presents a legend in French. It has repainting and period frame. Size: 85 x 151 cm; 97 x 163 cm (frame). The work, representing the Ecce Homo belongs biblically speaking to the cycle of the Passion, and precedes the episode of the Crucifixion. Following this iconography, Jesus is presented at the moment when the soldiers mock him, after crowning him with thorns, dressing him in a purple tunic (here of violet color, also symbolic color of the Passion) and placing a reed in his hand, kneeling and exclaiming "Hail, King of the Jews!". The words "Ecce Homo" are those pronounced by Pilate when presenting Christ before the crowd; their translation is "behold the man", a phrase by which he mocks Jesus and implies that Christ's power was not such in front of that of the leaders who were judging him there. In this work in particular, the figure of Christ as Ecce Homo is displaced from the center of the composition. He is placed on the right side, seated, in profile to the viewer and with his head tilted downwards. In the center, however, standing upright, is the figure of a pontiff, framed in a kind of cloth band, and opening his hands towards the faithful. This figure is accompanied by a cartouche, with a barely legible text. The scene has a multitude of characters, who congregate around these figures, who also have a cartouche that identifies them. It is possible that the scene narrates the moment in which Jesus is presented before Herod, being this the enthroned figure, seated in the left zone of the composition. The episode is narrated in the Gospel of Luke: after being judged by the Sanhedrin, Jesus is sent to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who upon learning that he was a Galilean understood that the case would be under the jurisdiction of Herod Antipas.
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