Room 70

Albrecht Altdorfer

1480–1538, Germany (Regensburg), Danube School, Northern Renaissance

Altdorfer was painter, printmaker and city architect in Regensburg. He was among the first to make landscape itself the subject: dense forests, river banks and mountains along the Danube in which the saints almost disappear. His small woodcuts of the Passion of Christ and his designs for goldsmiths’ goblets show how finely he told stories.

All works

• Christ Nailed to the Cross
• Altarpiece with the Beautiful Virgin of Regensburg and Saints
• Saint Jerome in a Cave
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt at a Fountain
• The Resurrection
• A Cleric Kneeling before the Virgin and the Christ Child
• Saint Christopher
• The Large Crucifixion
• The Virgin with the Blessing Child in a Landscape
• The Judgment of Paris
• Covered Goblet with Winged Ball
• The Holy Kinship
• Pair of Lovers in a Landscape
• Covered Goblet with Young Hercules
• Joshua and Caleb
• Virgin and Child in a Church
• Abraham's Sacrifice
• Covered Goblet with Grapes on the Stem
• Saint Christopher Seated by a River Bank
• The Standard Bearer
• Saint Jerome in a Courtyard
• An Allegory of Pride
• Noli me Tangere
• Saint Jerome Reading
• The Ascension of Christ
• The Entombment
• The Lamentation of Christ
• Raising of the Cross
• Christ Crowned with Thorns
• The Virgin and Child on a Crescent
• The Last Judgment
• Christ Carrying the Cross
• Christ before Pilate
• Christ before Caiaphas
• Ecce Homo
• The Great Landscape with the Water Mill
• The Rule of Bacchus [left panel]
• The Fall of Man [middle panel]
• The Rule of Mars [right panel]