The Entombment, from The Fall and Redemption of Man
<p>Albrecht Altdorfer, known as one of the Little Masters (in German, Kleinmeister) along with Georg Pencz and the brothers Barthel and Sebald Beham, excelled at creating prints on a minute scale, whether in intaglio or relief. This woodcuts is part of a series entitled <em>The Fall and Redemption of Man</em> contrasting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise with Christ’s Passion narrative. Connoisseurs would have collected these diminutive prints as an entire cycle and often pasted them into albums.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1510
- Dimensions
- Image/block: 7.2 × 4.8 cm (2 7/8 × 1 15/16 in.); Sheet: 7.3 × 4.9 cm (2 7/8 × 1 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Albrecht Altdorfer
Artist
Painting
Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube School, setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours. He is remarkable as one of the first artists to take an interest in landscape as an independent subject. As an artist also making small intricate engravings he is seen to belong to the Nuremberg Little Masters.
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- Albrecht Altdorfer
- Year
- 1510
- Dimensions
- Image/block: 7.2 × 4.8 cm (2 7/8 × 1 15/16 in.); Sheet: 7.3 × 4.9 cm (2 7/8 × 1 15/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1510-059205
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- verified