The Crucifixion, c. 1505-1516
Albrecht Altdorferexpand_more
Engravingexpand_more
Bequest of Herschel V. Jonesexpand_more P.68.110
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Pilgrimages to the Holy Land were popular activities in the North. The many pilgrim accounts described Calvary as a rocky, inhospitable place. Albrecht Altdorfer chose to heighten the immediacy of the Crucifixion, however, by placing it in a fictional German landscape. In time he would create the first pure landscape prints in art, but here he fuses his humanistic delight in nature with subdued religiosity.
Details
- Title
- The Crucifixion
- Artist Life
- c. 1480-1538
- Role
- Maker
- Accession Number
- P.68.110
- Provenance
- Frederick Keppel, 1926
- Catalogue Raisonne
- B.8, Holl.9 Winzinger 134 a or b/c
- Curator Approved
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