Sermon on the Mount

Sermon on the Mount

Jacques Callot

1635

ink

From the collection of National Gallery of Art

About this work

This painting shows a scene of Jesus giving a sermon. It's an etching, which is a technique where the artist scratches a design into a metal plate. The details in this etching are pretty intricate, and it's interesting to see how the artist used lines and shading to create depth. You can learn more about this technique by looking up etching.

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