Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape

작가	Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, c. 1410–1475/76)
제작 시기	c. 1445
분류	Painting
재료·기법	oil on panel
문화권	Flanders, Bruges
소장 부서	Medieval Art
이용 조건	퍼블릭 도메인 (CC0) — 수업·인쇄에 자유롭게 사용 가능

작품 설명

The overall style of this painting suggests that it was painted by an artist closely associated with the Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. The facial structure of the saint as well as the artist’s treatment of his cloak are typical of van Eyck’s follower, Petrus Christus. Christus was active in the city of Bruges and was a probable pupil and successor to Jan van Eyck, with whom his paintings have often been confused. Here, Christus depicts John the Baptist as an isolated, monumental figure without his typical hairshirt or other references to his life. This approach is derived from Claus Sluter’s monumental image of Saint John from the portal at Champmol and from manuscript illuminators working for Philip the Bold and his brother Jean de Berry. Here, John holds the Lamb of God, a symbol of Christ’s sacrifice and a reference to John’s proclamation of Christ’s redemption of humankind. Upon his death, Christus was succeeded by Hans Memling as the next great painter in Bruges.

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