The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 13/16 x 7 7/8 in. (25 x 20 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.602.12(2)
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Art Historical Context
In the bustling world of 16th-century Northern Renaissance printmaking, *The Parable of the Good Samaritan (1549) stands as a masterful etching by Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskck, with engraving assistance from Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert. This intimate sheet, measuring just under 10 by 8 inches, the biblical story from Luke 10, where a Samaritan aids a robbed traveler ignored by others, emphasizing themes of compassion and neighborly love amid religious tensions of the Reformation era. Heemskerck, fresh from Italian travels that infused his Mannerist style with dynamic compositions and expr...