The Virgin Mary as Mother of Sorrows by Albrecht Dürer was created in 1496. The painting is in Alte Pinakothek München. The size of the work is 110 x 43,6 cm and is made of oil on wood.
About the Work
The ‘Mother of Sorrows’ is the earliest painting in the Dürer collection in Munich. Together with seven scenes depicting the ‘Sorrows of the Virgin’ (Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen), this fragment was once part of a large panel painting measuring 188.5 by 136 centimetres, probably painted for Frederick the Wise for the palace church in Wittenberg. It was sawn into sections in the sixteenth century. The cropped shell, of which the edge is still recognisable, is one of the earliest Renaissance motifs to be found north of the Alps. Discover more in Alte Pinakothek München
About the Artist
Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I.
Dürer’s vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books. The woodcuts series are stylistically more Gothic than the rest of his work, but revolutionised the potential of that medium, while his extraordinary handling of the burin expanded especially the tonal range of his engravings; well-known engravings include the three Meisterstiche (master prints) Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514), and Melencolia I (1514). His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists. Read more in Wikipedia
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