Description of the painting by Titian “Behold the man”
Dated 1543 year, materials – oil on canvas, size – 242 by 361 cm. Stored in the Art-Historical Museum, Vienna, Austria.
The artist is the most prominent representative of the Venetian school, his fame from the Renaissance to the present day is compared with Raphael or Michelangelo. Among his favorite scenes were biblical and mythical stories, he paid great attention to the creation of magnificent portraits, for them very influential and wealthy contemporaries posed for him.
The basis of this picture was the scene from the Gospel of John. On Good Friday, when the people demanded the execution of Jesus, Pontius Pilate ordered the soldiers to beat him and dress him up as a “king”: instead of the royal cape, he wore a red cloak (scarlet), the crown was replaced with a crown of thorns, and the scepter was a thin twig. In this form, the son of God on the canvas is depicted pale and tortured. The procurator by
Titian very accurately conveyed emotions, put color accents to create the desired oppressive effect. With great realism he traced faces, figures and muscles, details of clothes and weapons, texture of fabrics. The composition, despite the impressive number of characters, is well balanced, I want to consider and analyze it.