Herri met de Bles, 1540 - Landscape with Saint John the Baptist - fine art print

Original information about the artwork by The Cleveland Museum of Art (© - The Cleveland Museum of Art - The Cleveland Museum of Art)

This picture is an example of the so-called world landscape, a term coined by art historians to characterize a type of Northern landscape painting with a vast panorama and a narrative religious subject in the foreground. This type of landscape, popularized by the Flemish painter Joachim Patinir (about 1485-1524), was fashionable throughout the 16th century. Bles placed the group of exotically dressed figures on a piece of land overlooking a great panorama of mountains, coast, and sea. The view of the harbor city is purely imaginative, and the fanciful cliffs and mountain peaks that crowd the distance seem to disappear into a light mist. This manner of creating depth in the landscape, called the atmospheric or aerial perspective, was an invention of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Bles was acclaimed in Italy as the Master of the Owl (il Civetta), after the bird he often put into his works. In this scene, the owl is situated on the rock in the lower-right foreground.

The 16th century artwork was made by the mannerist painter Herri met de Bles. The original has the size of Framed: 43,2 x 54,9 x 6,4 cm (17 x 21 5/8 x 2 1/2 in); Unframed: 30,5 x 42,3 cm (12 x 16 5/8 in) and was manufactured with oil on wood. The masterpiece has the following text as inscrption: signed with owl sitting on rock in lower right foreground.. The piece of art belongs to the The Cleveland Museum of Art's art collection. This public domain piece of art is being supplied with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Furthermore, the artwork has the following creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has a side ratio of 1.4 : 1, which means that the length is 40% longer than the width. The painter Herri met de Bles was a European artist, whose artistic style was mainly Mannerism. The European painter lived for 70 years - born in the year 1480 and passed away in the year 1550.

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