1509
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Round Passion: Christ Presented to the People is a 1509 by Lucas van Leyden, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows Christ standing in a shallow vestibule before a crowd. It's an engraving, which is a way of printing images using carved metal plates. Lucas van Leyden made several versions of this scene, focusing on the moment Christ was condemned to die. He used thin lines to create the image, which made the plates wear down quickly. To learn more, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
Because Lucas van Leyden usually carved his copper plates with thin, shallow lines, the plates wore down quickly; impressions this fine are especially rare. He engraved several versions of the scene of Christ presented to the people, focusing on the moment at which Christ was condemned to die on the cross. Here, he placed Christ in a shallow vestibule before an angry mob within a town and landscape setting that could be 16th-century Europe. This is one of nine engravings of the Passion of Christ in an unusual round shape; the prints feature a decorative border that was printed from a separate…
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Lucas van Leyden (1494 – 8 August 1533), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a very accomplished engraver.
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