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Jan Luiken made the engravings for the popular "sailor's bible" called "Lusthof des Gemoeds", by Jan Philipsz Schabaalje, 1714 Jan Luyken's print of the peat boat used as a ruse by the Dutch to gain possession of Breda from the Spanish in 1590. He was born and died in Amsterdam, where he learned engraving from his father Kaspar Luyken. [1]
Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") is an emblem book of 100 engravings by Jan Luyken and his son Caspar published in 1694, illustrating various trades in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. The majority of the trades shown are from the textile industry (12), followed by marine pursuits (8).
The 1685 edition of the book is illustrated with 104 copper etchings by Jan Luyken. Thirty-one of these plates survive and are part of the Mirror of the Martyrs exhibit at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas. [3] Two of the copper plates are located at the Muddy Creek Farm Library [4] established by Amos B. Hoover in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. [5]
Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the parable, from the Bowyer Bible. The Parable of the Leaven , also called the parable of the yeast , is one of the shortest parables of Jesus . [ 1 ] It appears in Matthew 13:33 and Luke 13:20–21 , as well as in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas ( logion 96 ).
English: Torture of teacher Ursula, Maastricht, 1570, detail of a copper engraving by Jan Luyken (1649-1712) from Martyrs Mirror. Original plate is signed "Ian Luyken invenit et fecit". Original plate is signed "Ian Luyken invenit et fecit".
The "Parable of the Talents" has been depicted by artists such as Rembrandt, Jan Luyken, and Matthäus Merian. In literature, the Threepenny Novel (1934), by Bertolt Brecht (1895–1956), presents a social critique of the parable as an ideological tool of capitalist exploitation of the worker and of society.
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Engraving by Jan Luyken from the 1685 Martyrs Mirror. Jan Woutersz van Cuyck (or Kuik) (ca. 1540–1572) was a Dutch Renaissance painter from Dordrecht. He became famous as a Mennonite martyr of the Protestant Reformation who was executed in 1572. His heart-rending letters from prison were published in the Martyrs Mirror.