Jan Sadeler, the Elder (Flemish, 1550-1600)
after Marcus Gheeraerts, the Elder (Flemish, c. 1520-c. 1590)
Title Page, from Passion of Christ
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Jan Sadeler, the Elder (Flemish, 1550-1600)
after Marcus Gheeraerts, the Elder (Flemish, c. 1520-c. 1590)1575/1600
Title Page, from Passion of Christ
Jan Sadeler, the Elder (Flemish, 1550-1600) after Marcus Gheeraerts, the Elder (Flemish, c. 1520-c. 1590) →engravingprint
Date
1575/1600
Medium
Engraving in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 16 × 11.8 cm (6 5/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 17.2 × 12.5 cm (6 13/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
A symbolically charged heraldic arrangement—including the spear, sponge, lash, and other instruments of Christ’s Passion—occupies the bulk of this oval design. Although the rest of the sheet contains significantly more text than the Sadeler and Gheeraerts signatures seen below the image in each subsequent print, it is similar in many ways to the grotesque imagery throughout the series. The blank background here makes one marked exception, as the other scenes play out before a unifying netting of black crosshatched lines.
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