第一天（死亡I）：黑暗与光明的分离，来自《创造世界》的板块1，一系列七个板块 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	第一天（死亡I）：黑暗与光明的分离，来自《创造世界》的板块1，一系列七个板块
品名（英）	The First Day (Dies I): The Separation of Darkness and Light, plate 1 from The Creation of the World, a series of seven plates
入馆年号	1953年，53.601.338(7)
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Jan Muller【1571 至 1628】【荷兰人】
创作年份	公元 1589
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页 (diameter): 10 3/8 英寸 (26.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	1589年，阿姆斯特丹图书印刷商、雕刻师和出版商的儿子Jan Muller是Hendrick Goltzius在哈勒姆的工作室的成员或工作人员。在那段时间里，他雕刻了一系列版画，描绘了荷兰北部首屈一指的绘图家和版画家Goltzius的设计创造的世界。尽管该系列的一些初步草图仍然存在，但最终设计已经丢失该系列本身就非同寻常。Goltzius没有遵循基于《创世纪》的数百年来对七天创造的传统描述，而是转向古典神话中的意象。人们经常认为他受到了一世纪拉丁诗人奥维德的启发，奥维德在他的关于神和人类的长诗《变形记》一开始就描述了他的创作一个天才（一个外表与天使相似的神话人物）漂浮在构图上方，用两根棍子将黑暗与光明物理分离。光的化身是一个戴着灿烂光环的裸体年轻人。从他的姿势和一般特征来看，他很像1588年戈尔茨乌斯雕刻的阿波罗（51.501.3），尽管他没有那么优雅，也缺乏神的特定特征。黑暗是一个黑人裸体女人高举着一块饰有星星的窗帘。除了一个缺失的头饰外，她很像1588-90年戈尔茨乌斯的一幅明暗对照木刻画中的诺克斯。
介绍（英）	In 1589 Jan Muller, son of the Amsterdam book printer, engraver, and publisher, was a member of or working in Hendrick Goltzius’s workshop in Haarlem. During that time, he engraved a series of prints depicting the creation of the world after designs by Goltzius, the premier draftsman and printmaker in the northern Netherlands. Although some preliminary sketches for the series still exist, the finished designs are now lost. The series itself is extraordinary. Rather than following the centuries old traditional representations of the seven days of creation, based on the Book of Genesis, Goltzius looked instead to classical mythology for his imagery. It is often suggested that he was inspired by Ovid, the first century Latin poet, who describes the creation at the beginning of The Metamorphoses, his long poem about the gods and humankind. A genius (a mythological figure similar in appearance to an angel) floats above composition, using two staffs to physically separate darkness from light. The personification of Light is a nude young man in a brilliant aureole. In his pose and general characteristics, he resembles the figure of Apollo in Goltzius’s engraving of 1588 (51.501.3), though he is less elegant and lacks the god’s specific attributes. Darkness is a Black nude woman holding aloft a drapery embellished with stars. Apart from a missing headdress she resembles the figure of Nox in a chiaroscuro woodcut by Goltzius of about 1588-90.