Mountain Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Jan van Londerseel (engravers (printmakers))
,
David I Vinckboons (after)
,
Claes Jansz II Visscher (publisher)

Date

ca. 1585 - 1625, ca. 1601 - 1702

Periods

16th century, 17 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.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Jan van Londerseel , David I Vinckboons , Claes Jansz II Visscher
Types burin engraving , etching , reproductive prints AAT
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 334 x 472 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2015-LS
Description
Subjects religious symbolism AAT, 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?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2015-LS
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