Martin SchongauerGermania, 1440–1491Christ Carrying the Cross
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This complex engraving depicts Christ's walk to Golgotha, the site of his Crucifixion. A crowd, depicted as violent and uncaring, moves across a rocky landscape. At the center of the procession, Christ has fallen under the weight of his huge cross. Martin Schongauer made Christ's gaze the only one directly confronting and involving the viewer in his anguish. Images like this functioned as devotional tools meant to help the faithful to meditate on Christ's suffering during his trial, torture, and execution.
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- 1941.389
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- Immagine: Cleveland Museum of Art — Museum open access
Nella vita di Martin Schongauer
Tutta la vitaearly 1470s
Begins signing his engravings with a monogram
He is thought to have begun signing his engravings with the monogram M†S in the early 1470s; 116 engravings are attributed to him, and none of them is dated.
c. 1471 – 1491
Twenty years at the head of German engraving
He dominates German engraving for about twenty years: his 116 engravings are known in Germany and Italy, reach England and Spain, and in Italy their maker is nicknamed “Beautiful Martin”; according to Vasari, Michelangelo copied his Temptation of St Anthony.
1488–1490
Hans Burgkmair the Elder in his workshop
Among his pupils is Hans Burgkmair the Elder, the Augsburg painter and designer of woodcuts, who works with him from 1488 to 1490.
1489
Recorded as a citizen of Breisach
Records of June 1489 name him a citizen of Breisach, where he is at work on the cathedral murals.
2 febbraio 1491
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