Man of Sorrows
A Man of Sorrows (also: Erbärmdebild, Man of Sorrows, image of compassion, Miserikordienbild or suffering Christ ) is a devotional image that represents the suffering Jesus Christ with all the crucifixion wounds and the wound in his side, but alive and not on the cross. It differs from the Ecce homo motif that Christ after the flagellation with crown of thorns, but without the stigmata of the crucifixion represents as well as the Engelspietà, which is mourned by angels the body of Christ.
History
This type of representation came in the 12th century in Byzantium ( " King of Glory " ) and found the beginning of the 14th century to the input of Christian mysticism in popular piety in the German language area distribution ( " Gregorian Man of Sorrows "). Unlike previous representations of Christ is not as bright king and conqueror of sin and death in the foreground, but as a sufferer, to the end of the consideration is to establish an inner relationship.
Examples
Master Francke
Rueland Frueauf the Elder
Meinrad Guggenbichler 1706
Basilica Seckau, Angels Chapel, fresco " Seckauer Apocalypse " by Herbert Boeckl, 1952-1960: Man of Sorrows