1485
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene is a 1485 ink by Martin Schongauer, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows a barefoot man with long hair and a cross-topped staff standing on a hillside. He’s reaching toward a kneeling woman wrapped in a long robe, who looks up at him with one hand raised. Behind them, a bare tree and a line of boats sit on a grassy slope. A sleeping dog lies at the woman’s feet, and a small barrel sits near her. The artist used thin, crisscrossed lines to build up shadows and textures, like the folds in the woman’s robe or the bark on the tree. Next, check out engraving to see how this technique works.
Martin Schongauer, also known as Martin Schön or Hübsch Martin by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter.
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