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Engravings |
Prints |
Lucas's print included secular subjects, and many depictions of famous Biblical scenes, including Adoration of the Magi, The Virgin and Child on the Crescent, and The Holy Family. |
The Power of Women Series |
From 1513 to 1517, Lucas created a series of woodcuts called "The Power of Women", which consisted of two large and small sets of prints. The series is one of a number of representations of the Power of Women theme, which was extremely popular in Renaissance art and literature. Artworks in the genre depict the traditional roles of men and women in inverse, with women dominating over men in various situations. The subjects illustrated often consist of legendary historical women who were considered to be virtuous heroines as well as women who were considered cunning, seductive, and manipulative of men. The purpose of the "Power of Women" theme was to demonstrate that even the strongest and wisest of men were not resistant to the sexuality of women. |
Large Power of Women (1513—) |
The Mouth of Truth: A woman kneels in front of the Emperor of Rome and places her hand in the mouth of a statue of a lion while a crowd observes in the background. |
The Fall of Man: In the foreground, Eve stands to the left of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, around which a serpent is wrapped, and hands an apple to Adam, who sits to the right of the tree. In the background to the right, an angel drives Adam and Eve out of Eden. |
Samson and Delilah: Delilah sits a bed of rocks while Samson lies sleeping in her lap. She holds his hair in one hand and cuts it with a knife. |
Solomon's Idolatry: King Solomon kneels in front of an idol of Moloch in the center foreground while one of his mistresses and a crowd of men observe him from behind. |
Herod and Herodias: Herod and Herodias sit at a table while their daughter Salome approaches them, holding a plate bearing the head of St. John the Baptist. |
The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket: Virgil is shown stranded in a basket hung on the side of a tower in the town square, with a jeering crowd below him. |
Small Power of Women (1517—) |
The Fall of Man: In the foreground, Adam and Eve are around the tree of knowledge of good and evil, with the serpent wrapped around the trunk and holding an apple. In the background, an angel drives Adam and Eve out of paradise. |
Jael Killing Sisera: In the foreground, Jael hammers a tent peg into Sisera's ear as he lies on the ground. In the middle ground on the right, Jael points out the foreground scene to a group of armed Israelites. In the background on the left, Sisera drinks from a goblet given to him by Jael. |
Samson and Delilah: Same as woodcut of larger size. Delilah sits a bed of rocks while Samson lies sleeping in her lap. She holds his hair in one hand and cuts it with a knife. |
Solomon's Idolatry: Same as woodcut of larger size. King Solomon kneels in front of an idol of Moloch in the center foreground while one of his mistresses and a crowd of men observe him from behind. |
Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyards to King Ahab: Jezebel stands beside her husband King Ahab of Israel, who is lying on his bed in his room. |
Herod and Herodias: In the foreground, Salome holds a plate bearing the head of St. John the Baptist in front of Herod and Herodias, who are sitting at a table. Through a window on the back wall, St. John the Baptist is seen being beheaded. |
Power of Women Woodcuts |
Family |
In 1515, Lucas married Elisabeth van Boschhuysen, from a patrician Leiden family. The marriage remained childless. Lucas did have a daughter Marijtje, born in Leiden out of wedlock around 1512. This daughter Marijtje would later marry the painter Dammas Claesz de Hoij. In their offspring, the De Hoij family, one can find prominent artists throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
Collections |
Today, Lucas's work is held in the permanent collections of several institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the British Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Fralin Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Worcester Art Museum, the Clark Art Institute, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. |
See also |
Renaissance in the Netherlands |
References |
Notes |
Citations |
Sources |
External links |
Media related to Lucas van Leyden at Wikimedia Commons |
Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Lucas van Leyden (see index) |
Works by Lucas van Leyden at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |
Literature on Lucas van Leyden |
Ludovico Mazzolino (1480 – c. 1528) - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Ferrara and Bologna. |
Biography |
He was born and died in Ferrara. He appears to have studied under such painters as Lorenzo Costa, who also may have trained Dosso Dossi, and came under the influence of Ercole Roberti. In 1521 he married Giovanna, the daughter of Bartolomeo Vacchi, a Venetian painter. Much of his work was commissioned by the duke Ercole I d'Este from Ferrara. Mazzolino was influenced by il Garofalo and Boccaccino. He is known for devotional cabinet pictures, in a style somewhat regressive, or primitive, relative to the modern classicism then emerging. For example, his Massacre canvas has a turbulent and cartoonish crowding. |
The exact date, or even year, of his death is not known, but he died during a plague which devastated the area. |
Paintings at National Gallery, London |
The Holy Family with Saint Francis |
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery |
Christ disputing with the Doctors |
The Holy Family with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino |
The Nativity |
Selected works |
Works elsewhere |
Christ disputing with Doctors (1520–25) (Gemaeldegalerie, Berlin) |
The Tribute Money (Christ Church, Oxford) |
Massacre of the Innocents (1515–1520, Uffizi) |
Madonna and Child with St Joseph (1522) (rediscovered September, 2009, Cheltenham, UK) |
Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1524) Ringling Museum Sarasota) |
Madonna with Sainy Antonio Abbot (1525, Chantilly) |
Circumcision (1526, Vienna) |
Christ Purging the Temple (c. 1527) (Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, UK) |
The Holy Family in a Landscape (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany) |
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