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Lucas Van Leyden - Worshipping of the Golden CalfWorshipping of the Golden CalfLucas Van Leyden

This well-preserved triptych was intended for domestic use for an unknown patron. The interlocking composition shows the people of Israel disobeying God's commandment by setting up a golden calf in the desert of Sinai and giving themselves over to dissipation. This took place after the long absence ...

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Lucas Van Leyden - The Card Players 3The Card Players 3Lucas Van Leyden

This painting is a good example of the combination of Italian Renaissance tendencies with the artist's native Flemish inheritance. It is assumed that the subject of the painting may not be the obvious one of card players, but may in fact refer to a secret political alliance at the highest level. In ...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Lot and his DaughtersLot and his DaughtersLucas Van Leyden

The story of the destruction of Sodom, Lot's escape, and his subsequent seduction by his two daughters is told in Genesis. Lot and his family were allowed to leave the city on condition that they did not look back. Lot's wife disobeyed the instruction and was turned into a pillar of salt. Lot contin...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Milk-maidMilk-maidLucas Van Leyden

Germany produced the majority of the leading printmakers of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In France and in the Low Countries, printmaking evolved more slowly and without the concentration of talented practitioners found in Germany. However, Dürer had a skilled Netherlandish rival: Luc...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Fortune-Teller with a FoolFortune-Teller with a FoolLucas Van Leyden

Fortune-Teller with a Fool (1508-10) is an oil on panel painting by Lucas van Leyden. The painting (24 x 30 cm) is now in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

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Lucas Van Leyden - The Last Judgment 1The Last Judgment 1Lucas Van Leyden

The Last Judgment(1527), is an oil on panel painting, (301 x 435 cm).Now in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden. This triptych originates from the Pieterskerk in Leyden. It was one of the few altarpieces to survive the iconoclasm of 1566. This is the central panel of the Last ...

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Lucas Van Leyden - St Jerome PenitentSt Jerome PenitentLucas Van Leyden

St Jerome was a popular Renaissance subject; the Church Father's role as translator of the Bible endeared him to scholars of most stripes. While his master's penitence appealed to the devout, Jerome's scrawny lion is unable to witness so painful a sight, so Lucas show him slinking off into the deser...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Self-portraitSelf-portraitLucas Van Leyden

Lucas was reported to have been extremely precocious, a competent painter at fifteen. He spent most of his time in Leyden. He died fairly young and believed himself to have been poised by his rivals whom he avoided by working in bed. There are few paintings, but his output of woodcuts was large enou...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Virgin and Child with AngelsVirgin and Child with AngelsLucas Van Leyden

Virgin and Child with Angels(c. 1520), is an oil on wood painting, (74 x 44 cm), now in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Around 1520 Lucas' style was very close to that of the Nuremberg master Albrecht Dürer, as illustrated by this painting.

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Lucas Van Leyden - The Card Players 2The Card Players 2Lucas Van Leyden

Pictures of everyday secular life, known as genre painting, were a Dutch specialty. The game played with gold coins for high stakes is an early form of poker. Now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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Lucas Van Leyden - The ResurrectionThe ResurrectionLucas Van Leyden

The Resurrection (1529), is a Black chalk, brush in gray and black artwork, (252 x 201 mm), now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. This late drawing by Lucas van Leyden was probably a design for a stained-glass window.

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Lucas Van Leyden - Susanna and the EldersSusanna and the EldersLucas Van Leyden

Lucas van Leyden, a child prodigy took a strikingly original approach to the subjects of his early prints. In this engraving, in the foreground, hidden behind a rocky outcrop and some trees, the elders spy on the bathing Susanna, who is a small figure in the distance. The focus is on the evil-doers,...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Worshipping of the Golden Calf 1Worshipping of the Golden Calf 1Lucas Van Leyden

This well-preserved triptych was intended for domestic use for an unknown patron. The interlocking composition shows the people of Israel disobeying God's commandment by setting up a golden calf in the desert of Sinai and giving themselves over to dissipation. This took place after the long absence ...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Christ Healing the BlindChrist Healing the BlindLucas Van Leyden

The painting was probably executed for the hospital of Leiden. Originally it was a triptych, however, at the beginning of the 17th century the central panel and the side wings were joined. Now in the collection of The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

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Lucas Van Leyden - The Last JudgmentThe Last JudgmentLucas Van Leyden

The Last Judgment(1527), is an oil on panel painting, (301 x 435 cm).Now in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden. This triptych originates from the Pieterskerk in Leyden. It was one of the few altarpieces to survive the iconoclasm of 1566.

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Lucas Van Leyden - Virgil Suspended in a BasketVirgil Suspended in a BasketLucas Van Leyden

This print inverts the normal practice of placing the main subject in the foreground. The victim, the first-century BC poet Virgil, is the small melancholic figure seated in the basket behind. Accordding to a late medieval French fable, the Roman poet fell in love with the daughter of Emperor August...

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Lucas Van Leyden - The Game of ChessThe Game of ChessLucas Van Leyden

Chess was a popular medieval allegory for power struggles on most levels, including the battle of the sexes. Here the lady proves a winner in every sense. Several versions of Lucas's popular painting survive. The painting is now in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin.

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Lucas Van Leyden - Abraham and Isaac on Their Way to the Place of SacrificeAbraham and Isaac on Their Way to the Place of SacrificeLucas Van Leyden

Abraham and Isaac is among Lucas van Leyden's most successful prints, one of the more than 20 woodcuts of his oeuvre. It has a delicate balance between line and tone. The figures are set in a broad landscape that is convincingly built up in several planes and recedes into the distance, thus making c...

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Lucas Van Leyden - King David in PrayerKing David in PrayerLucas Van Leyden

Images of David kneeling in prayer with the Lord appearing overhead in the clouds were popular in illustrated bibles in the 16th century. Lucas also illustrated the choice that God demanded of David in a print dated 1520 but with an angel appearing in the clouds holding three arrows. In the next cen...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Ecce HomoEcce HomoLucas Van Leyden

In this famous engraving, Lucas van Leyden indicated that the event - Pontius Pilate showing Christ to the people - had taken place in a foreign land, many years in the past. He imagined how people might have dressed in those days, and gave the buildings in his imaginary Jerusalem an old-fashioned l...

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Lucas Van Leyden - The DentistThe DentistLucas Van Leyden

The theme of the dentist or tooth-puller in art has Northern European roots. The iconography of this conventional theme was fixed with Lucas van Leyden's famous engraving dated 1523. This early engraving already contains all the motifs emphasized in later representations: the ostensibly expert denti...

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Lucas Van Leyden - Virgin and Child with the Magdalen and a DonorVirgin and Child with the Magdalen and a DonorLucas Van Leyden

Virgin and Child with the Magdalen and a Donor (1522), is an oil on wood painting, (51 x 68 cm). This painting is one of the rare dated paintings of the artist therefore it serves as a point of reference in the reconstruction of the chronology of his oeuvre.