Crucified Man
1550
Melchior Lorck
Melchior Lorck (Danish, 1526/27-aft 1588)
Prints
Crucified Man, 1550. Melchior Lorck (Danish, 1526/27-aft 1588), after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564). Engraving; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1923.264 In this print Danish artist Melchior Lorck isolated the figure of the Old Testament villain Haman from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. Lorck may have seen it in person, or in a print or drawing. He rendered the musculature and outline carefully, but less successful were his grasp of the figure’s foreshortening (the rendering of a figure in perspective), and the proportions of the body in relation to the head. Artists working outside Italy around 1550 still did not generally sketch from live models, nor did they directly study anatomy, which may explain Lorck’s awkward reconciliation of the form.
- Maker/Artist
- Lorck, Melchior
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- engraving
- Medium
- engraving
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1923.264
- Credit Line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition of Prints by the Little Masters: Prints form the Museum Collection, 16th Century German Engravings, Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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