Ecco Homo

The scene is taken from the Gospel of John, 19:5. Pontius Pilate displays Christ to the crowd with the words, "Ecce homo!" ("Behold the man").[6] Caravaggio's version of the scene combined Pilate's display with the earlier moment of Christ, already crowned with thorns, mockingly robed like a king by his tormentors.  Caravaggio has dropped the convention of showing Christ's torturer as a grotesque, and has shown Pilate dressed as a 17th-century official.

This "Ecco Homo"  was painted by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It is now in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy.  Historians report that Cardinal Massimo Massimi commissioned paintings of the Ecce Homo from several artists including Cigoli, Caravaggio, Antonio Ciseri and Domenico Passignano.