The Crucifixion

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Crucifixion

Albrecht AltdorferLinkedCulture matchlcp-ec78a3338e8d

Date
c. 1505–16
Medium
Engraving
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
7437

Pilgrimages to the Holy Land were popular activities in the North. The many pilgrim accounts described Calvary as a rocky, inhospitable place. Albrecht Altdorfer chose to heighten the immediacy of the Crucifixion, however, by placing it in a fictional German landscape. In time he would create the first pure landscape prints in art, but here he fuses his humanistic delight in nature with subdued religiosity. Germany, Europe

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Bequest of Herschel V. Jones

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