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Man of Sorrows

Maerten van Heemskerck

Maerten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Italian-influenced style.

Max Resolution:584×700 PX

Title:Man of Sorrows

Artists:Maerten van Heemskerck

Date:c.1532

Style:Mannerism

Genre:religious painting

Medium:oil,panel

Location:Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium

Dimensions:72.5×84.2 cm

Copyright:Public domain

The Man of Sorrows is a 1532 painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Maarten van Heemskerck in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent.

The subject depicts Christ after the crucifixion attended by angels, with wounds prominently displayed, wearing the crown of thorns and a loincloth. The loincloth is claimed to be wrapped around an erection, visible to some art historians but not others. Van Heemskerck is not the only Renaissance artist to depict Christ with an erection (ostentatio genitalium), which some scholars interpret as a symbol of his resurrection and continuing power.

Other versions of Christ crowned with thorns by Heemskerck are: