1540
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Landscape with Saint John the Baptist is a 1540 unspecified by Herri met de Bles, a Flemish Baroque painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a landscape with Saint John the Baptist in the foreground. The scene is set on a piece of land overlooking mountains, coast, and sea. It's interesting because the artist combined a religious subject with a vast landscape, a style popular in the 16th century. You can learn more about this style at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
This picture is an example of the so-called world landscape, a term coined by art historians to characterize a type of Northern landscape painting with a vast panorama and a narrative religious subject in the foreground. This type of landscape, popularized by the Flemish painter Joachim Patinir (about 1485-1524), was fashionable throughout the 16th century. Bles placed the group of exotically dressed figures on a piece of land overlooking a great panorama of mountains, coast, and sea. The view of the harbor city is purely imaginative, and the fanciful cliffs and mountain peaks that crowd the…
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Herri met de Bles, also known as Henri Bles, Herri de Dinant, Herry de Patinir,(c.
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