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The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan
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About this work
Christ wades in the Jordan River to be blessed by John the Baptist, whose left hand rests on a book of scripture, signifying the fulfillment of prophecy. Overhead, the Spirit of God approvingly descends in the form of a dove. Schongauer’s engraved lines inventively emulate different natural qualities and textures, for example the fur of John’s robe, the figures’ spiraling locks of hair, and the stippled wings of the angel.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, c. 1480–90. Martin Schongauer (German, c. 1450–1491). Engraving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1952.78
