Abraham and the Angels
Cleveland Museum of Art

Abraham and the Angels

Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, 1494–about 1533) · 1513

engraving
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Lucas van Leyden was an innovator in the medium of engraving, inventing new strategies for modeling shadow by cutting curved parallel lines and then adding shorter lines in between, as seen on the angel’s knee.

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