The Crucifixion called the Sword Pommel of Maximilian

c. 1518 · Print

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Not on view at present

Where is “The Crucifixion called the Sword Pommel of Maximilian” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 12 days ago
In this state since: Sep 29, 2026
Source: The museum

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Details

Accession number: 1943.3.3538

What it shows

Crucifixion Group Christ Skull Shield

In the catalog

Prints Engraving Renaissance 16th century German Religious art Germany, late 15th-early 16th century

Display history

Not on view at present
National Gallery of Art · Sep 29, 2026 — now · Verified
Was not on view
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Sep 29, 2026 — Sep 29, 2026 · Verified
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National Gallery of Art · Sep 29, 2026 — Sep 29, 2026 · Verified
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Sep 28, 2026 — Sep 29, 2026 · Verified
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National Gallery of Art · Sep 28, 2026 — Sep 28, 2026 · Verified
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Sep 27, 2026 — Sep 28, 2026 · Verified
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National Gallery of Art · Sep 26, 2026 — Sep 27, 2026 · Verified
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Aug 19, 2026 — Sep 26, 2026 · Verified

Sources

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — Museum open access

In the life of Albrecht Dürer

The whole life

1507–1528 · Workplace
Nuremberg
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.
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.”