Mountain Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

David (I) Vinckboons (after)

,

Jan van Londerseel (engravers (printmakers))

,

Claes Jansz. Visscher (publisher)

Date

circa 1585 - 1625

Periods

16th century , 17th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

In this mountain landscape, Christ is challenged by the devil in the guise of an old man in monk's habit. The devil offers Christ a stone and asks him to turn it into bread. Below the scene, three two-line verses are rendered in Latin and there is a reference to the Bible text in Mat 4.

Public Domain

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Features

Artist(s) / maker(s)	David (I) Vinckboons , Jan van Londerseel , Claes Jansz. Visscher
Types	burin engraving , etching AAT , reproductive prints
Category	prints (visual works) AAT
Material	burijngravure en ets op papier met watermerk (rechts in het midden) paper
Dimensions	334 x 472 mm
Location	Work currently not on display
Object number	2015-LS

Description

Subjects

religious symbolism , figures (representations) , landscapes

Tags

New Testament Iconclass , Christ Iconclass , Christ as adult Iconclass , the story of Esther Iconclass , public life of Christ: from his baptism until the Passion Iconclass , Christ, sometimes accompanied by guardian angel(s), tempted by Satan, who usually appears in human form Iconclass , 'command these stones to become loaves of bread' ~ temptation of Christ in the wilderness Iconclass , mountains Iconclass , trees Iconclass , shrubs Iconclass , landscape with ruins Iconclass , ruin of a dwelling, house, castle, etc. Iconclass , collapsing building Iconclass , ruin of a building ~ architecture Iconclass , tower (of house or building) Iconclass , devil(s) and demons Iconclass , devil(s) and demons: Satan Iconclass , human-shaped devil Iconclass , activities of devil(s) Iconclass , devil(s) appearing to mortals, trying to seduce them; temptation Iconclass

Linked open data

Data PURL	https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2015-LS
IIIF manifest	https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8903/manifest.json
LIDO XML	https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai/?metadataPrefix=oai_lido&verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2015-LS

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