Ecce Homo

Christ stands on a raised stone dais, wearing the crown of thorns and holding a reed as a mock scepter, while Pilate gestures toward him from the doorway of a large classical building. In the foreground, a dense crowd of figures in 16th-century attire reacts to the scene, with some individuals pointing toward the platform and others watching from balconies above.

As a leading figure of the Haarlem Mannerists, Goltzius produced this 'Passion' series using a style that deliberately imitated the archaic manner of Lucas van Leyden, reflecting the era's intellectual interest in artistic lineage and the spiritual practice of 'Imitatio Christi'.