Detail View: The AMICA Library: The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.33.92ab
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Eyck, Jan van
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Netherlandish
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Netherlandish, active by 1422, died 1441
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Jan van Eyck and Workshop Assistant
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Title:
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The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
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View:
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Full View, Last Judgment
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Creation Date:
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ca. 1430
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Creation Start Date:
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1420
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Creation End Date:
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1440
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Materials and Techniques:
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Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
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Dimensions:
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Each 22 1/4 x 7 2/3 in. (56.5 x 19.7 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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33.92ab
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Credit Line:
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Fletcher Fund, 1933
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Rights:
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Context:
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These pictures juxtaposing Christ's sacrifice for the salvation of mankind with the Last Judgment are early works by Jan van Eyck, the most celebrated painter of fifteenth-century Europe. The 'Crucifixion' is presented as an eyewitness account set against a distant landscape, astonishing for its depth and subtlety of description. In contrast, the 'Last Judgment' is organized hieratically in three tiers, with the scale of the figures manipulated to indicate their relative importance. The texts on the original frames are given form in the pictures with remarkable literalness, establishing a play between word and image that would have been admired by contemporaries. The upper half of the 'Last Judgment' was painted in part by an assistant. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ep33.92b.R.tif
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