The Lamentation of Christ by Albrecht Dürer was created in 1500. The painting is in Alte Pinakothek München. The size of the work is 151,9 x 121,6 cm and is made of oil on wood.
About the Work
The ‘Glim Lamentation’ is the epitaph of the Nuremberg goldsmith Albrecht Glim and his wife, Margret Holtzmann, who died in 1500. Both are depicted in the foreground with their children and the family coat of arms. The epitaph originally hung on a pillar in the Predigerkirche in Nuremberg, in which Albrecht Grim’s tomb was located. His son had the painting removed before 1547 and sold it. Stylistic parallels to Dürer’s works at the end of the fifteenth century are clearly obvious (see, for example, ‘The Apocalypse’ series of woodcuts). Discover more in Alte Pinakothek München
Abot 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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