Abraham's Sacrifice
Catalogue
- Year
- 1520
- Medium
- woodcut on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to block): 12.2 × 9.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Albrecht Altdorfer
Artist
Painting
Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube School, setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours. He is remarkable as one of the first artists to take an interest in landscape as an independent subject. As an artist also making small intricate engravings he is seen to belong to the Nuremberg Little Masters.
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- Albrecht Altdorfer
- Year
- 1520
- Medium
- woodcut on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to block): 12.2 × 9.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1520-027261
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified