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Christ among the Doctors
Also titled Jezus onder de schriftgeleerden
Orazio Borgianni (Rome, 1578–1616)
c. 1609
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 78.2 cm x width 104.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Broere Charitable Foundation
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
In Rome, Borgianni became acquainted with the new style of Caravaggio, whose influence can be discerned in the group of elders surrounding the brightly illuminated young Jesus. According to the Bible, Christ astonished them with his knowledge. Paintings like this made a deep impression on the Dutch painters who visited Rome during the 17th century.
