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The Flight of the Apostles
Creator
Simon BeningFlemish Illuminator · 1483–1561
All works by this person →One of the most celebrated painters of Flanders in the 1500s, Simon Bening was hailed by Portuguese art critic Francisco da Hollanda as the greatest master of illumination in all of Europe. In addition to producing books for powerful aristocrats such as Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Bening worked for a group of international royal patrons including Emperor Charles V and Don Fernando, the Infan
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- about 1525–1530
- Medium
- Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf
- Culture
- Flemish
- Department
- Manuscripts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
His head bowed and his hair scraggly and matted, Christ contends with the unruly mob after his arrest. Many people lay hands on the surrounded prisoner: at the left a man carrying a lantern, whose face registers an almost bestial thirst for blood, rushes forward to get in on the action, while another throws a rope around Christ's neck. At the left, behind the violent frenzy of the foreground, the apostles run off into the darkness. In this miniature, Simon Bening portrayed Christ at his most pathetic, abandoned, and alone.
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