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Look at the strip of empty ground between John and Jesus, then look for the few painted letters on the little bridge at the upper right.
Now John wears the rough hair shirt of a hermit. The Latin title means “Behold the Lamb of God,” the words with which he points out Jesus, standing apart at the right, as the promised savior. A crowd of listeners presses in from the left.
Tempera on panel · 68.5 × 39.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Renaissance · Late Gothic and Early Renaissance
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Ecce Agnus Dei
- Artist
- Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, 1398–1482)
- Date
- 1455–60
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 68.5 × 39.5 cm (27 × 15 1/2 in.); Framed: 80.1 × 53.4 × 8.9 cm (31 1/2 × 21 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.