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Original fileKruisiging van Christus (rechterdeel)
About This Work
A crowded scene shows Roman soldiers in contemporary armor on horseback, one of whom points toward the unseen central cross. In the foreground, laborers struggle with heavy wooden beams and tools, while diverse figures in turbans and robes observe from the middle ground. The composition is set against a rolling landscape leading to a distant, fortified hill under a textured sky.
This print by Aegidius Sadeler, a preeminent artist at the court of Rudolf II in Prague, reflects the dissemination of Venetian Renaissance masterpieces to Northern European intellectual circles. While religious in subject, Sadeler's work is central to the Mannerist aesthetic that flourished in the 'Courts of Wonder,' where art, natural philosophy, and Hermeticism often converged.
Inscriptions(Latin)
Cum Iacobus Tinctoretus Venetus Pictor celeberrimus aedem sodalitatis Diui Rochi in hac Urbe constructam egregijs suis operibus decorauerit et potissimum CRISTI DNI mortis honesto, lachrymabiliq, spectaculo hoc Diuinum opus a me summo studio, et labore tabulis impressis Sereniss: nomini tuo iure merito dicandum censui, tum quia Catholicae Religionis Cultor sacra semper foues, et amplectaris, tum et quia praeter scientiam rer: q: grauissimas cognite: hac nobili arte maiorem in modum delectaris. Hilari igitur benignaq: fronte, ut soles, excipe signum observantiae erga te meae quod tibi Sereniss: Princeps humilis offero. Marco Sadeler excudit
Translation
When Jacopo Tintoretto, the most celebrated Venetian painter, decorated the building of the Confraternity of Saint Roch constructed in this city with his distinguished works, and especially with the honorable and tearful spectacle of the death of Christ our Lord, I considered this divine work, by my own greatest study and labor, worthy to be dedicated by right and merit to your Serene name, both because as a cultivator of the Catholic religion you always foster and embrace sacred things, and because, beyond your knowledge of the most weighty matters, you delight greatly in this noble art. Therefore, with a cheerful and kindly countenance, as is your custom, receive this sign of my observance toward you, which I, humble servant, offer to you, most Serene Prince. Marco Sadeler published it.
Connected Texts
Jacopo Tintoretto
This engraving is a copy of the right section of Tintoretto's monumental 1565 'Crucifixion' in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice.
Provenance & Source
Object
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
paper
height 490 mm x width 390 mm
religious
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