The Savior with the Cross, Standing, after Michelangelo
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Jacob Matham
(Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1571–1631)
NationalityDutch, Europe
Datecirca 1602
MediumEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 14 3/16 × 9 9/16 in. (36 × 24.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.1737
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.1737
On View
Not on viewFor artists working in the Low Countries, a trip to Italy was considered a right of passage. Following his master Goltzius to Rome, Jacob Matham supplemented his large oeuvre of engravings after the antique, with a print celebrating Michelangelo’s sculpture, Savior with the Cross, Standing. Before the seventeenth century, there were very few prints of contemporary sculpture in Rome. Michelangelo was the exception, having been recognized as a genius in his own lifetime.
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