The Third Day, plate 4, from Creation of the World
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate (diameter): H.: 27 cm (10 11/16 in.); sheet: 32.4 × 27.8 cm (12 13/16 × 11 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
268300
Art Historical Context
Behold *The Third Day, plate 4* from Jan Harmensz. Muller's *Creation of the World*, a captivating 1590 engraving that vividly captures the Biblical moment from Genesis when God separates the waters to form land and commands the earth to sprout vegetation. This circular composition, with its 27 cm diameter plate, viewers into a harmonious vision of divine order emerging from chaos, filled with lush plants, rolling hills, and seas. Muller, a leading Dutch engraver of the late Northern Renaissance and Mannerist circle—trained under Hendrick Goltzius—mastered the intaglio technique, incising fin...
About the Artist
Jan Harmensz. Muller · 1571–1628
Comment on works: Printer and Draughtsman