The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Date16th century
Maker
Jan Swart van Groningen
Netherlandish, ca. 1500-1560
Previous Attribution
Jan van Scorel
Dutch, 1495-1562
Label TextLike several other Dutch painters of the early sixteenth century, Jan Swart was curious about the art of Italy and traveled to Venice in the 1520s. Influenced also by his countryman Jan van Scorel, who had been as far as Rome, Swart combined the typical Dutch palette of acidic bright colors with his notion of an Italianate figure style. He turned the common approach to painting receding landscape into an overly schematic formula. Paint may not have been his natural medium; for most of his career, he was a printer and stained glass designer.
Object number65.40
Credit LineMargaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund
Dimensions28 3/4 x 24 1/4 in. (73 x 61.6 cm)
MediumOil on panel
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