Cleveland Museum of Art

Solomon's Idolatry

Lucas van Leyden

Date

1516–1519

Medium

woodcut

Culture

Netherlands, 16th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

One can assume that the popularity of the earlier Power of Women series (on view nearby) inspired Lucas to produce another similar group. Also consisting of six subjects but somewhat smaller in size, this set reveals Lucas's increased ability to integrate figures more naturally into a setting. This scene, in which one of his wives persuades Solomon to worship idols, also demonstrates a desire to follow Albrecht Dürer's systematic style of hatching to produce tonal effects (see Dürer's The Large Passion: The Last Supper).

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