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Ecce Homo [1]

Ecce Homo

by William S. Powell, 2006 Ecce Homo. North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.

Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), a famous oil painting by Francisco Pacheco [2] measuring about 30 by 40 inches in size and depicting Christ wearing a crown of thorns, hangs in St. James Episcopal Church [3] in Wilmington [4]. Three Spanish ships attacked and occupied the town of Brunswick [5] in 1747, driving out the inhabitants. Three days later, men of the area gathered to drive out the Spanish. A carefully aimed or unusually lucky shot lobbed a shell onto the Spanish privateer Fortuna [6], still anchored in the Cape Fear River [7] beside the town. The Fortuna exploded and the other two ships sailed down river, where they paused to exchange prisoners. Ecce Homo was among the goods removed from the sinking ship. The colonial assembly in May 1751 voted to present the painting to St. Philip's Church [8] in Brunswick. When Brunswick was abandoned after the American Revolution, the painting was moved to St. James Church.

Reference:

Louis T. Moore, "Ecce Homo," Uplift 32 (4 Mar. 1944).

Additional Resources:

Spanish Attack, NC Historical Marker D-16: http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?ct=ddl&sp=search&k=Markers&sv=D-16%20-%20SPANISH%20ATTACK [6]

Subjects:

Colonial period (1600-1763) [9]

Art [10]

Authors:

Powell, William S. [13]

Origin - location:

Wilmington [14]

From:

Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press. [15]

1 January 2006 | Powell, William S.

Source URL: http://ncpedia.org/ecce-homo

Links:
[1] http://ncpedia.org/ecce-homo
[2] http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/437504/Francisco-Pacheco
[3] http://www.stjamesp.org/
[4] http://ncpedia.org/geography/wilmington
[5] http://ncpedia.org/brunswick-town
[6] http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?ct=ddl&sp=search&k=Markers&sv=D-16%20-%20SPANISH%20ATTACK
[7] http://ncpedia.org/rivers/cape-fear
[8] http://www.nchistoricsites.org/brunswic/st-philips-church.htm
[9] http://ncpedia.org/category/subjects/colonial-period
[10] http://ncpedia.org/category/subjects/art
[11] http://ncpedia.org/category/subjects/fine-arts
[12] http://ncpedia.org/category/subjects/unc-press
[13] http://ncpedia.org/category/authors/powell-william-s-0
[14] http://ncpedia.org/category/origin-location/coastal-39
[15] http://ncpedia.org/category/entry-source/encyclopedia-