Art Institute of Chicago
Saint John the Evangelist
Hans Franckenberger, the ElderLinkedCulture matchlcp-2525d60d3fbc
- Date
- 1519
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, prepared with a brown wash ground, laid down on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 218916
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Early German drawings such as this striking sheet are rare. Here the artist emulated a sculptural relief on a brown wash ground using a chiaroscuro technique (contrasting light and dark). The saint is depicted drawing poison out of a chalice of wine by blessing it, turning the toxin into a snake.
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- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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