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Il diluvio

1531
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 502
Questa vetrata, insieme a Mosè presenta le Tavole della Legge, anch’essa conservata nel Museo, e ad altre cinque vetrate, ornava il coro della chiesa del convento benedettino di Saint-Firmin in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, in Lorena. L’ opera fu commissionata dal priore, Wary de Lucy, e fu realizzata da Valentin Bousch di Metz, uno dei più bravi maestri vetrai della Francia nord-orientale durante il Rinascimento dei paesi settentrionali. Bousch rifiutò la tradizionale suddivisione in compartimenti, trattando invece ciascuna composizione come un enorme retablo dipinto o intagliato all’interno di una cornice architettonica a trompe-l’œil. Vivaci tonalità di vetro colorato si frammischiano ad aree dipinte a grisaille e col nitrato d’argento su vetro trasparente, tagliato con straordinaria maestria.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Titolo: Il diluvio
  • Artista: Valentin Bousch, Francese, m. 1541
  • Data: 1531
  • Materiale e tecnica: Vetro, dipinto e smaltato
  • Dimensioni: 3,61 x 1,7 m
  • Crediti: Acquistato, lascito di Joseph Pulitzer, 1917
  • Numero d'inventario: 17.40.2a–r
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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