De kruisiging

1521 - 1525 · Print

May one see it?

Unknown

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source: The museum

On the map Museum page

About the work

In the museum's own words — in Dutch

Christus aan het kruis met vele omstanders. Aan zijn linkerzijde onder anderen Johannes de Evangelist, aan zijn rechterzijde onder anderen zijn moeder Maria, aan zijn voeten Maria Magdalena. Op de achtergrond huizen, een kerk en een burcht. Deze prent is onvoltooid, de voorstelling is alleen met contourlijnen aangeduid.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

Accession number: RP-P-OB-1283

What it shows

Bystanders at the foot of the cross, among whom Mary, Mary Magdalene and John the Evangelist Mary may be shown swooning

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 16th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

Meanwhile, in the life of Albrecht Dürer

The whole life

1507–1528 · Workplace
Nuremberg
1519
Death of Emperor Maximilian
Maximilian, Dürer's chief patron, died just as the artist feared he was losing “my sight and freedom of hand” (perhaps from arthritis) and was increasingly drawn to Luther's writings. Shortly before the emperor's death Dürer had made his portrait.
July 1520
Journey to the Netherlands with his wife
To renew his imperial pension and win the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, Dürer travelled with his wife and her maid down the Rhine via Cologne to Antwerp, where he was warmly received. He attended the coronation at Aachen and saw van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece and Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges.
4 October 1520
Charles V confirms his pension
The new emperor, Charles V, confirmed Dürer's right to his pension of 100 guilders a year; the main aim of the journey had been achieved.
1520–1521
An illness caught in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands Dürer caught an unknown illness, possibly malaria, whose attacks plagued him for the rest of his life. He drew himself pointing to his spleen, with the note: “Where the yellow spot is, and where I point with my finger, that is where it hurts.”
1525
Publishes the Four Books on Measurement
His Four Books on Measurement (Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler) appeared in Nuremberg, the first book for adults on mathematics in German, later cited by Galileo and Kepler. Dürer wrote in the craftsmen's vernacular rather than in Latin.