How a German painting influenced the Revolutionary War

Portion of Domenico Feti’s painting “Ecce Homo” (“Behold the Man”) Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was from a noble German family. While on his “Grand Tour” in which young aristocrats were introduced to royal courts around Europe, Count Zinzendorf viewed in the Dusseldorf museum a painting by Domenico Feti depicting Christ’s suffering. The painting, titled “Ecce…