Bartolomé Esteban Gallery

Ecce-Homo, 1660 - 1670, (c1934). Artist: Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Ecce-Homo, 1660 - 1670, (c1934). Ecce homo (behold the man), are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate when he presented Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. Depictions of the Ecce Homo were highly popular within Spain during the Counter Reformation. Oil on canvas. Held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. From Galerias De Europa: Museo Del Prado, by A. De Beruete y Moret & Augusto L. Mayer. [Editorial Labor, S.A., Barcelona, c1934]

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Rebeca Y Eliecer, (Rebecca and Eliezer ), 1652, (c1934). Artist: Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Rebeca Y Eliecer, (Rebecca and Eliezer ), 1652, (c1934). An episode from Genesis when Abraham asks one of his servants (Eliezer) to find a wife for his son (Isaac), explicitly warning him not to return with a Canaanite. Eliezer stops near a well and Rebeca appears giving him water for his camels. Oil on canvas. Held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. From Galerias De Europa: Museo Del Prado, by A. De Beruete y Moret & Augusto L. Mayer. [Editorial Labor, S.A., Barcelona, c1934]

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