Landschap met Christus en de hoofdman van Kafarnaüm c. 1560 - 1595

Julius Goltzius made this print, "Landscape with Christ and the Centurion of Capernaum," using engraving. Look closely, and you can see how the network of fine lines describes the landscape and tells the biblical story. It's a highly skilled, labor-intensive process. Metal engraving was a key technology in the early modern period. With the rise of print culture, images could be replicated and widely distributed, like information in the internet age. The very act of making this print—transferring an image from a copper plate to paper—speaks to the radical idea of disseminating religious narratives. This print isn't just about the biblical scene; it's a testament to the power of reproducibility and the democratization of knowledge. It collapses the distinction between the sacred and the secular. The landscape, meticulously rendered through careful labor, becomes a vehicle for spreading faith, one print at a time.