ALTDORFER, Albrecht
(b. ca. 1480, Regensburg, d. 1538, Regensburg)

The Resurrection of Christ

c. 1516
Oil on wood, 71 x 37 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

This is a panel from a from a large winged altarpiece, the Florian Altarpiece painted for abbey Augustiner-Chorherrenstift at Sankt Florian near Linz, Austria. The altarpiece survived only in fragments.

The altarpiece when open represented scenes from the Passion, while showed four scenes of the Legend of St Sebastian when closed. This panel constituted a part of the predella.

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa brevis