Kruisiging
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Dutch
Christus aan het kruis. Aan zijn rechterzijde staat Maria, aan zijn linkerzijde Johannes de Evangelist. In de hemel verschijnt God, omgeven door engelen. Het geheel in ornamentale lijst met engelen die de passiewerktuigen vasthouden.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-P-OB-1369
Meanwhile, in the life of Albrecht Dürer
The whole life1507–1528 · Workplace
Nuremberg
1513–1516
Three years without painting
Complaining that painting did not pay enough to justify the time compared with his prints, Dürer produced no paintings from 1513 to 1516.
1514
Death of his mother
In the year of Melencolia I and St Jerome in His Study, the artist's mother, Barbara Holper, died.
1515
A life pension from the emperor
The perpetually cash-strapped Maximilian could not pay on time and offered to exempt the artist from city taxes, which the Nuremberg Council opposed. At Dürer's request the emperor granted him a life pension of 100 guilders a year from the sums Nuremberg paid into the imperial treasury.
1517
Joins Nuremberg's circle of reformers
Dürer joined the circle of Nuremberg reformers led by the Augustinian vicar Johann Staupitz and Wenceslaus Linck. Around 1518 he came to know the writings of Martin Luther, which, he said, had “greatly helped” him.
summer 1518
At the Imperial Diet in Augsburg
Dürer represented Nuremberg at the Imperial Diet in Augsburg, where he drew Maximilian I and Albrecht of Brandenburg and painted a portrait of Jakob Fugger.
![Madonna and Child [obverse], Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496/1499](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/878db7e6-10ae-4cae-ba5d-6d6f5c413ae8/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
![Lot and His Daughters [reverse], Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496/1499](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/7565a449-f82a-414b-9bda-c93f55a51b4d/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
