Return to Nuremberg; paintings (1507-1509)
by Albrecht DÜRER

The influence of Dürer's Italian trip can be seen in the two life-size panels of Adam and Eve, which he painted soon after his return in February 1507. Soon after Dürer's return to Nuremberg, Frederick the Wise commissioned yet another altarpiece, this one for the relic chamber of his church at Wittenberg. Completed in 1508, it is a gruesome depiction of The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand.

Dürer was also working on an altarpiece for the Frankfurt cloth merchant Jacob Heller. While away in Venice his workshop had already begun painting the wings and Dürer himself did the central panel depicting the Coronation of the Virgin. The panel was destroyed in a fire at the Residenz in Munich in 1729. Only an early seventeenth-century copy of the central panel survives.

Preview Picture Data Info
Adam and Eve
1507
Oil on panel, 209 x 81 cm (each panel)
Museo del Prado, Madrid


Adam
1507
Oil on pine panel, 209 x 81 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid


Adam (detail)
1507
Oil on panel, width of detail 50 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid


Eve
1507
Oil on pine panel, 209 x 81 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid


Eve (detail)
1507
Oil on panel, width of detail 50 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid


Portrait of a Young Man
1507
Oil on lindenwood, 35 x 29 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


Portrait of a Young Girl
1507
Oil on panel tranferred from parchment, 30 x 20 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
1508
Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 99 x 87 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (detail)
1508
Oil on canvas transferred from panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (detail)
1508
Oil on canvas transferred from panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (detail)
1508
Oil on canvas transferred from panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (detail)
1508
Oil on canvas transferred from panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna


Heller Altarpiece (copy)
1507-09
Tempera on wood, 190 x 260 cm
Historisches Museum, Frankfurt


Heller Altar (detail)
1508-09
Tempera and oil on wood, 189 x 138 cm (central element)
Historisches Museum, Frankfurt



Summary of paintings by Albrecht Dürer
until 1496 | 1497-99 | 1500-03 | 1504 | 1505-06
1507-09 | 1511 | 1512-17 | 1518-21 | 1522-28
graphic works



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