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ECIIEXA canvas. Christ, with face inclined and arms folded, sorrowing. Painted before 1500. C. & C., Titian, i. 58. By Titian, Vienna Museum ; canvas, H. 12 ft. x 8 ft. ; signed and dated 1543. Christ presented to the people from the top of a flight of steps leading from the palace into the square below ; the gaoler below looks on while Pilate (portrait of Aretino) points to the Captive ; the turbaned Turk in the crowd below is Sultan Solimau, aud the tano, Padua, dated 1574. Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 429 ; C. & C., Titian, ii. 92. Subject treated also by Hans Holbein, elder, Donauschiugen Gallery ; Lodovico Carracci, Pal. Doria, Rome ; Bartolommeo Montagna, Louvre ; Fra Bartolommeo, Pal. Pitti, Florence ; Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, ib. ; Mabuse, Antwerp Museum. ECHENA, JOSE, born in Spain, contem- porary. Paints chiefly oriental subjects. His picture, The Arrival at Calvary, painted for -?M - r*?s " l ' - i/i ^:: f ,T :^.'b-' -- lj.:1 '-"^ f / m>- 3^S^T P Wi^-l/fe/f; M^U" Ecce Homo, Titian, Vienna Museum. knight is said by tradition to be Charles V., but the features are those of Alfonso d'Este. Painted in Venice for Giovanni d'Anna, who placed it in his palace, now the Palazzo Mar- tinengo ; sold in 1G20 to Sir Henry "Wotton, English envoy at Venice, for Duke of Buck- ingham, who a few years afterward refused .7,000 for it ; sold by his son for about 700 to Canon Hillewervo of Antwerp, who sold it to the Archduke Leopold, for his brother, the Emperor Ferdinand HI. ; removed from Prague to Vienna in 1G88 by Emperor Charles VI. Copy in sacristy of S. Gae- the high altar of the Cathedral, Madrid, was exhibited in London in 1884. Another work, Snake Charmers, was painted in 1882. ECHTER, MICHAEL, born in Munich, March 5, 1812, died there, Feb. 4, 1879. His- tory painter, pupil of Munich Academy un- der Heinrich Hess, Clemens Zimmermann, and Julius Selmorr, then of Olivier ; assisted Schnorr in the decoration of the Royal Pal- ace in Munich, and in 184G Kaulbach, by whom he was much influenced, in that of the Berlin Museum. After his return to Munich, he became member of the Academy