Landscape with view of a village (one of three)
early 17th century
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (16.5 × 21.6 cm)
Classification
Glass-Stained
Culture
Swiss, Zurich
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935
Accession Number
48.149.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Christoph Murer, a Swiss artist from Zurich active in the late 16th and early th centuries, crafted this delicate stained glass panel, *Landscape with View of a Village (one of three)*, around the early 1600s. Known primarily as a cartographer and engraver Murer excelled in topographical views, capturing the rolling hills, clustered villages, and sturdy trees of his Swiss homeland with remarkable precision. This small panel, measuring just 6½ × 8½ inches, exemplifies the Renaissance tradition of stained glass not only for grand cathedrals but also for intimate secular settings, like private ch...
About the Artist
Christoph Murer · 1558–1614
Christoph Murer was born in Zurich in 1558 into a dynasty of Swiss artists, the son of the glass painter Josias Murer and grandson of the celebrated painter and dramatist Jos Murer. Growing up surrounded by the craft of stained glass and the broader artistic culture of late Reformation Switzerland, he received thorough training in both glass painting and drawing, eventually becoming one of the mos...