基督的洗礼 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	基督的洗礼
品名（英）	The Baptism of Christ
入馆年号	1951年，51.501.6336
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Jan Muller【1571 至 1628】【荷兰人】
创作年份	公元 1590
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 11 11/16 × 8 7/16 英寸 (29.7 × 21.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	在这幅阴沉的版画中，基督坐在一块石头上，周围环绕着天使。他穿着一件长长的流苏长袍，手里拿着一根小树枝，好像是权杖，头上有带刺的树枝，好像是皇冠。基督戴着荆棘冠冕的故事在马太福音、马可福音和约翰福音中都有记载，当他在被钉十字架之前被狱卒折磨和嘲笑时。扬·穆勒（Jan Muller）是最受欢迎的风格主义版画家之一，雕刻了十六世纪末和十七世纪初主要艺术家的作品。在这里，他按照自己的设计，以相对罕见的构图，将事件从受难的故事中删除，并将其设置在天堂，将图像变成崇敬和奉献的对象。他将它放在一个拱形的框架中，类似于《基督的洗礼》（51.501.6338）和《圣母与孩子的祝福》（2014.662）中的框架，尽管不那么精致，因此印刷品的功能几乎像一个小祭坛。
介绍（英）	In this somber engraving, Christ is seated on a block of stone, surrounded by angels. He wears a long, tasseled robe, holds a small branch in his hands as if it were a scepter and has thorny branches circling his head as if they were a crown. The narrative of Christ wearing a crown of thorns is recounted in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John and when he is tortured and mocked by his jailers just prior to the Crucifixion. Jan Muller was one of the most sought-after Mannerist printmakers, engraving the compositions of the leading artists of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth- centuries. Here in a relatively rare composition after his own designs, he removes the event from the story of the Passion and sets it in heaven, turning the image into an object of veneration and devotion. He places it within an arched frame, similar to that in The Baptism of Christ (51.501.6338) and The Virgin with the Child Blessing (2014.662), though less elaborate, so that the print functions almost like a small altar.