1546
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Joseph Lowered into a Well is a 1546 by Georg Pencz, a Renaissance work, depicting Beheaded Head, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a man in a brown robe lowered headfirst into a dark well. A rope holds him by his ankles. Two men stand at the well’s edge. One wears a red hat. This scene shows Joseph from the Bible. It’s rare to see him treated this way. The artist used light and shadow to make the well look deep. Look up Georg Pencz at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Georg Pencz (c. 1500 – 11 October 1550) was a German engraver, painter and printmaker. Pencz was probably born in Westheim near Bad Windsheim/Franconia. He travelled to Nuremberg in 1523 and joined Albrecht Dürer’s…
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