The Infants Christ and Saint John the Baptist Embracing  1525

by Joos van Cleve

As a center for Europe’s luxury trade in the early 16th century, Antwerp’s markets attracted artists from neighboring regions. There Joos van Cleve found an international clientele and learned to adapt the ideal forms of the Italian Renaissance to a northern European context. In this painting, the poses and modeling of the intertwined children derive from Leonardo da Vinci...
Size: 
29 7/16 × 22 11/16 in. (74.7 × 57.6 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on panel
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago