Ecce Homo

Florentine inventories called this a Titian through the 1700s. Then the Pitti inventory of 1829 took it away from him and handed it to Ottavio Vannini, a Florentine painter who had died in 1660, and there it stayed for well over a century. The Palatine Gallery's modern catalogue gives it back to Titian and links it with an Ecce Homo the old painter was arranging by letter with Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, between 1564 and 1566. What you are looking at is Christ shown to the crowd, hands roped, the crown of thorns on his head and a reed put in his hand for a sceptre. The canvas is under 70 centimetres tall, made to be prayed in front of in a private room, which is where the duke's pictures hung.