His eyes look humbly to the ground, His head is wrapped in thorns, He is surrounded by those who are torturing him. The Master of Delft shows us the Lord as somebody who do not let his royalty and divinity filter through His expression.

The man who he is portraying us is a defeated man. This meditative Jesus seems to bring the viewers, even those who are looking at him just for an instant, inside what is happening to him.

In fact, the author portrayed many of the characters around Jesus wearing clothes that resemble the fashion of his era, (sixteen century), so that he could evoke the idea that the men who are mocking the son of God are just the same as those of his own time. The Lord’s face is multiplied, since it is drawn in the right side of a triptych, the ”Triptych of the Passion”, which shows us, from left to right, an Ecce Homo, the crucifixion and then the crowning with the crown of thorns.

Let me see your divine image, with pure consciousness so that I can proclaim: Honour and Praise should be given to the father, the Son and the Spirit, in the whole creation, for ever and ever, Lord, friend of men (Romano il Melode).