The Baptism of Christ
around 1515, Artist: Joachim Patinier
The Baptism of Christ
Even during his own lifetime, Patinier’s fame extended well beyond the borders of his own country. In the diary he wrote of his journey to the Netherlands (1521), Albrecht Dürer used a term hitherto undocumented in the German language to describe him: a “good landscape artist”. The signed picture is one of Patinier’s major works. The intention and concept of the “world landscape” upon which this picture is based is not the exact reproduction of a topographical reality, rather a cosmos made up of individual parts united in a harmonious whole.
Object data
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Dated
around 1515
Artist
Joachim Patinier (um 1485 Dinant an der Maas - 1524 Antwerpen) - GND
Material
oak wood
Dimensions
59,7 cm × 76,3 cm
Framed: 74,2 cm × 91,3 cm × 7,7 cm
Signed
Inscribed on the rock in the foreground: OPVS.IOACHIM.D.PATINIER
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Inv. No.
Gemäldegalerie, 981
Provenance
Coll. Leopold Wilhelm
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