Maansverduistering bij de dood van Christus

This small vertical engraving depicts a personified moon surrounded by concentric rings of shadow and heavy clouds. Below the celestial event, sharp and barren rock formations rise from a desolate foreground. The scene represents the supernatural darkness described in biblical accounts of the Crucifixion, where the celestial order is disrupted.

This work touches upon the 'Miraculous Eclipse,' a phenomenon of great interest to Renaissance natural philosophers who noted that a solar eclipse during a full moon was a physical impossibility, thus representing a divine suspension of astrological laws. It reflects the intersection of theology and cosmology prominent in the late 16th-century intellectual climate of Northern Europe.