Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 15 9/16 in. (29.6 × 39.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.34.3
Tags
BuildingsMountainsTreesSaint John the BaptistCrowd
About the Artist
Frans Crabbe van Espleghem|Nicolaas Hogenberg · 1480–1553
Frans Crabbe van Espleghem was one of the leading artists in Mechelen, the capital of the southern Netherlands. He began his career painting altarpieces but after Albrecht Dürer's visit to the Netherlands in 1521, Crabbe began to produce prints. He combined Italianate figure types with a concern for atmosphere and depth in landscape and an emphasis on ordinary daily life and humble people. In 1539...