Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist

1512·pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and white gouache; framing lines in pen and black ink·Sheet: 19.1 x 12.6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 20 x 13 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund

Catalogue

Year: 1512
Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and white gouache; framing lines in pen and black ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 19.1 x 12.6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 20 x 13 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist: Albrecht Altdorfer

Artist

Albrecht Altdorfer

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.

Regensburg, Germany

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