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Worship of the Golden Calf
Also titled De dans om het gouden kalf
Lucas van Leyden (Leiden, ca. –1533)
c. 1530
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- triptych
- Dimensions
- support/centre panel: height 93.5 cm (centre panel) x width 66.9 cm (centre panel)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This biblical narrative, showing the Israelites who were disloyal to God by worshipping the golden statue of a calf, was set by Lucas van Leyden in a continuous landscape. The triptych warns against faithlessness and debauchery. The choice of this rare subject is perhaps connected to the rise of Protestantism, with its strong aversion to the Roman Catholic veneration of religious images.
