Ecce Homo Guido Reni (Bologne 1575-1642) atelier

"Ecce Homo"
Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642) workshop
Oil painting on canvas
period 1630/40
Canvas size 70 x 83 frame 81 x 94
Very good condition

The figure of Christ bound and bleeding presented by Pilate to the people after the scourging was one of the strongest images of Christian art since the Renaissance, but it is certain that the maximum expression of this iconography materializes in the works of Guido Reni, the greatest and most influential of all the Italian painters of the seventeenth century.
 Painted in the third decade of the century, this famous depiction of his exemplifies the unique combination of grace and religious conviction that the great Bolognese genius was able to shape in his depictions of the suffering Christ.
He himself an extremely devoted man, in these works he avoids representing Christ with a disfigured face full of human suffering and leaving out the recurring prototype that focuses on the externalization of physical pain, highlights his inner spiritual agonies.
In this personal process the Author departs from the traditional message of the Ecce Homo, bringing to his subject an intensity and a graceful beauty that has represented the Christian imagination of the Passion ever since.
Guido Reni's "Ecce Homo" remain today the most famous and recognizable of all his paintings and the success of these images of him indicate him as one of the cornerstones of ancient painting.
Our canvas, while undoubtedly presenting all the pictorial characteristics of the various creations that came out of his workshop, constitutes a very rare and interesting variant, slightly deviating from the most well-known ones in terms of the position of the face.
In consideration of the excellent quality of the painting, which is much higher than the many copies, we certainly consider it a product of his renowned workshop.
In fact, the canvas stands out for its pictorial perfection and for its extreme figurative elegance, with a splendid chromatism highlighted by the excellent conditions.
It is certainly an important and prestigious work that possesses all the requisites of the most beautiful devotional painting of the 17th century.
It is in excellent condition, already perfectly clean and relined, complete with an antique gilded frame.
We offer it to the most selective collectors looking for a painting capable of clearly expressing the greatness and fame of its author.