Jan Gossart, 1520 - Christ Carrying the Cross - fine art print

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The artwork was made by the Dutch painter Jan Gossart. The more than 500 year-old original was made with the exact dimensions 9 7/8 × 7 1/2 in (25,1 × 19 cm) and was produced with the technique of oil on oak. It is in the the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The artwork, which belongs to the public domain is being included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Honorable J. William Middendorf II, and Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, Director's Fund, Gift of George A. Hearn, by exchange, and Marquand and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, 2016. : Gift of Honorable J. William Middendorf II, and Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, Director's Fund, Gift of George A. Hearn, by exchange, and Marquand and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, 2016. Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has an aspect ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Jan Gossart was a painter, whose artistic style can primarily be classified as Northern Renaissance. The Northern Renaissance painter was born in the year 1478 and died at the age of 54 in 1532.

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• Poster (canvas material): Our poster print is a UV printed sheet of canvas with a slight texture on the surface. Please note, that depending on the absolute size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of something between 2-6cm round about the painting to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.
• Print on acrylic glass (with real glass coating): A glossy acrylic glass print, often referred to as a UV print on plexiglass, makes an original artwork into great wall decoration. With an acrylic glass art print contrasts and artwork details will be more visible thanks to the precise tonal gradation of the picture. The real glass coating protects your chosen fine art print against light and heat for up to 6 decades.
• Metal (aluminium dibond print): Aluminium Dibond prints are prints on metal with a true depth effect. The Direct Print on Aluminum Dibond is your ideal start to fine art replicas manufactured on aluminum. For our Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print your chosen work of art right on the aluminium composite surface. The white and bright sections of the artpiece shine with a silky gloss, however without glare. The colors are bright and luminous, fine details of the print are crisp and clear.
• Canvas: A canvas print is a printed cotton canvas stretched on a wooden frame. The great advantage of canvas prints is that they are relatively low in weight, which means that it is quite simple to hang up your Canvas print without the help of any wall-mounts. Because of thata canvas print is suited for any type of wall.

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Additional description as provided from the museum (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Christ appears isolated outside the walls of Jerusalem, stumbling and weighed down by the heavy burden of the cross. His elaborate pose reflects Gossart’s study of Roman sculpture. Intended for private meditation, Gossart’s poignant depiction of the suffering Savior responds to widely popular texts such as Thomas à Kempis’s De Imitatione Christi (Imitation of Christ, about 1420), which advocated personal and empathic contemplation focused on the individual events of Christ’s Passion. Used as a visual aid for private devotion, the small painting was most likely either hung on a wall or hand-held.