Golgotha by Govert Flinck
North-Netherlandish painter and student of Rembrandt's. Mostly known for three large civic guard paintings (Amsterdam Rijksmuseum). Was responsible for a generous part of the decorations of the town hall on Dam square. Flinck was a celebrated portrait painter in his time.
Details
- Artist
- Govert Flinck
- Created
- 1649
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimension
- 90cm × 119cm
- Passage
- Matthew 27:45-56
- Housed at
- Art inspired by Stories in the Bible
Found in: Matthew, Matthew 27, 17th century, Crucifixion
Matthew 27:45-56
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
47 Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”
48 Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
49 The rest said, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to save him.”
50 Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
51 Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.
54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”
55 Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.
56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
Matthew 27:45-56 · World English Bible
The artist
Govert Flinck
1615 - 1660
Kleve, Netherland
Govert Flinck was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer, but having secretly acquired a passion for etching and drawing, was sent to Leeuwarden, where he boarded in the house of Lambert Jacobszoon, a Mennonite, better known as an itinerant preacher than as a painter.