Ecce Homo, from The Passion of Christ

Christ stands on an elevated balcony alongside Pilate, who gestures toward him while a servant prepares a basin for Pilate to wash his hands. The foreground is densely packed with a diverse crowd in 16th-century attire, including a man hoisting a large wooden cross and a small child pointing toward the platform. The setting utilizes Northern European architecture rather than a Middle Eastern locale, situating the sacred event in a contemporary Dutch context.

This print is part of a series where Goltzius intentionally imitated the style of earlier masters like Lucas van Leyden to demonstrate his technical virtuosity. His work was deeply influenced by the moral philosophy of Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, whose ideas on human perfectibility and Stoic-Christian ethics were central to the Haarlem Mannerist circle.