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The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, by Matthias Grunewald
Matthias Grünewald (c 1470- 1528) is one of the greatest figures in German Renaissance art. The visionary character of his work, with its expressive colour and line, is in stark contrast to Albrecht Dürer's.
His real name was Mathis Gothart Niethart. A seventeenth-century writer mistakenly identified him by the name Grünewald, his real name was not discovered till the 1920s. He was born in Würzburg in the 1470s. He served as court painter and engineer to two successive archbishops of Mainz from about 1510 to 1525. He left this post apparently because of Lutheran sympathies. Grünewald died in HalleHalle (also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish from Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia) is the largest town in the German Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. It lies in the southern part of the state, on the river Saale. Population: 243,045 (2001). in 1528.
The greatest of his works is the Isenheim AltarpieceAn altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych. Groups of stat, completed 1515Events June Invasion of Persia by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire. August 23 Battle of Chaldiran. Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I. September 5 Selim captures the Persian capital of Tabriz without encountering any resistance, but is, now in the Musée d'Unterlinden, ColmarThis article is about the city in Alsace. There is also a Colmar, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colmar is a city in the Haut-Rhin departement of Alsace, France. Colmar was also known as Kolmar during the times when Alsace was part of Germany. In 1999. It contains his most famous images: the Crucifixion, the Temptation of St AnthonyAnthony the Great ( 251 356), Christian saint, also known as Anthony of Egypt Anthony of the Desert and Anthony the Anchorite was a leader among the Desert Fathers, who were Christian monks in the Egyptian desert in the 3rd and 4th centuries A. His feast, and the Resurrection.
See also: Early Renaissance paintingJan van Eyck (1434). Early Renaissance painting bridges the period of European art history between the art of the Middle Ages and the art of the Renaissance. Two regions of Europe were particularly artistically active during this period: northern Europe (