Fischzug petri konrad witz biography

1444 painting by Konrad Witz

The Miraculous Draft of Fishes is a 1444 oil on wood panel painting by the Swabian artist Konrad Witz, on view in the Museum of Art and History (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Fischzug petri konrad witz biography

Witz was the first artist to be recognized for incorporating large landscapes in paintings with large amounts of detail.^[1] The landscape has a panoramic view of Lake Geneva and was a significant accomplishment for Northern Renaissance Art.^[1]

Originally part of a now dismantled altarpiece known as Peter's Altar Table, the panel depicts the miraculous catch of 153 fish as reported in the Gospel of John and shows a scene of the disciples, who had been fishing at the edge of a lake, recognising the stranger who had called out to them from the shore as the resurrected Jesus.

Peter is shown wading toward Jesus to greet him. In this painting Witz takes the revolutionary step of moving the scen