Summoning the Sons of Zebedee
1515 | Marco Basaiti
After he had summoned Peter and Andrew to follow him as disciples, Christ met James and John, the sons of Zebedee, on the banks of Lake Genezareth. He also asked them to go with him. Stimulated by the subtle colour compositions of his teacher Giovanni Bellini and his fellow student Giorgione, Basaiti used gentle honey-coloured light and the complementary blue of the robes, water and sky to create a harmonious mood of figures and landscape.
After he had summoned Peter and Andrew to follow him as disciples, Christ met James and John, the sons of Zebedee, on the banks of Lake Genezareth. He also asked them to go with him. Stimulated by the subtle colour compositions of his teacher Giovanni Bellini and his fellow student Giorgione, Basaiti used gentle honey-coloured light and the complementary blue of the robes, water and sky to create a harmonious mood of figures and landscape.
Artist:
Marco Basaiti (um 1475 - um 1530 Venedig) DNB
Time:
1515
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Material/technology:
Poplar wood
Dimensions:
124,3 cm x 80,4 cm x 3 cm
Framed: 137 cm x 93 cm x 7,5 cm
Signed
Inscribed at the lower left on a label: .1515. marcus. baxaitj. f.
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 116
Provenance
1636 Bartolomeo della Nave (?), Venice; 1638-1649 Hamilton (?); 1659 Leopold Wilhelm, Brussels