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The Mocking of Christ / Christ as the Man of Sorrows
Artist: Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse (Flemish, ca. 1478-1536)
Date: about 1525
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 5 7/8 in. (20.3 x 15 cm)
Medium: Etching
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchased with Funds from the Libbey Endowment, gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1980.1012
Label Text:In Northern Europe in the early 1500s, prints began to show the influence of classical learning and the innovations of the Italian Renaissance. Flemish artist Jan Gossart traveled to Italy, where he explored the classical world and studied ancient art, as well as the work of Renaissance masters like Michelangelo. Gossart looked to antique sculpture as a model of ideal proportion, especially as seen here in the muscular figure of Christ.
The subject is a cross between the scene of Christ being crowned with thorns and presented with a mock scepter as King of the Jews—here, a fool presents him with a cattail—and the contemplative figure of the Man of Sorrows, a symbol of salvation.
The subject is a cross between the scene of Christ being crowned with thorns and presented with a mock scepter as King of the Jews—here, a fool presents him with a cattail—and the contemplative figure of the Man of Sorrows, a symbol of salvation.
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