Catherine Puglisi is a professor of art history at Rutgers University and specializes in Italian Baroque painting and sculpture.William Barcham is a professor of the history of art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. He is a specialist in Venetian art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

• Introduction“A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isa. 53:3): The Biblical Text and Its Afterlife in Christian Tradition by John SawyerDefining Terms: Ecce Homo, Christ of Pity, Christ Mocked, and the Man of Sorrows by Colum HourihaneThe Rise and Early Development of the Man of Sorrows in Central and Northern Europe by Grazyna JurkowlaniecThe Man of Sorrows in Northern Europe: Ritual Metaphor and Therapeutic Exchange by Mitchell B. MerbackFrom Book to Song: Texts Accompanying the Man of Sorrows in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Susan BoyntonThe Man of Sorrows from Byzantium to Venetian Crete: Some Observations on Iconography and Function by Maria Constantoudaki-KitromilidesSix Panels by Michele Giambono, “pictor Sancti Marci” by William L. BarchamFrom Column to Chalice: Passion Imagery in Venetian Mariegole ca. 1320–1550 by Lyle HumphreyVeronese’s Visioning of the Man of Sorrows by Catherine R. PuglisiImages of Christ for Venetian Piety and Devotions in the Light of the Council of Trent by Stefania MasonNotes on ContributorsIndex