# Road to Calvary [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLES, Herri met de]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 82 x 114 cm ## Commentary Road to Calvary c. 1535 Oil on panel, 82 x 114 cm University Art Museum, Princeton Herri met de Bles was a significant contributor to the tradition of landscape painting. One of his largest landscapes appears as the setting for the Road to Calvary, now in Princeton. The subject is immersed within a spectacular landscape. The foreground procession of people who stream from the giant turreted gate of Jerusalem is minuscule, and within the city walls the artist scatters more tiny figures, who act out the various episodes of the Passion. In contrast to the procedure of the early landscapists, met de Bles's procedure was first to sketch the layout of the landscape omitting figures entirely, to assure a unity and totality to the view. The figures were added later. In this painting, like in his other landscapes, the painter thought in terms of a landscape with figures and not figures in a landscape. ## Related artworks - [Christ Carrying the Cross]() - [Christ's Calling to St Peter]() - [Elijah Ascending to Heaven in the Fiery Chariot]() - [Extensive Coastal Landscape with the Calling of St Peter \(detail\)]() - [Extensive Coastal Landscape with the Calling of St Peter \(detail\)]() - [Extensive Coastal Landscape with the Calling of St Peter \(detail\)]() - [Extensive Coastal Landscape with the Calling of St Peter \(detail\)]() - [Extensive Coastal Landscape with the Calling of St Peter]() - [Fantastical Moonlit Landscape]() - [Landscape with Christ and the Men of Emmaus]() - [Landscape with the Banishment of Hagar]() - [Landscape with the Flight into Egypt]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()