Ceiling Design with the Mystical Wine Press
Medium
Pen and black ink, gray wash, red chalk, squared in red and black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 3/16 × 11 3/16 in. (33.5 × 28.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014
Accession Number
2014.111
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints, where we encounter *Ceiling Design with the Mystical Wine Press*, a captivating preparatory drawing from around 1750 by Johann Georg Dieffenunner and Franz Sigrist Created during the height of the Rococo era Europe, this work exemplifies the ornate decorative arts favored for grand ecclesiastical and palatial interiors. The title evokes the "Mystical Wine Press a profound Christian symbol drawn from the Book of Revelation, depicting Christ treading grapes in a press to signify divine judgment and salvation—a motif popular in Baroque...