The Emperor Maxentius Ordering the Burning of the Fifty Wise Men...
Albrecht Altdorfer
1500–1538
Medium
Pen and brown ink, and wash over black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 6 5/8 x 6 5/16 in. (16.9 x 16 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Didier Aaron Inc. Gift, 2003
Accession Number
2003.3
Tags
SufferingMenPunishment
About the Artist
Albrecht Altdorfer · 1475–1538
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538) was a German painter, printmaker, and draftsman who stands as one of the founders of landscape painting as an independent genre. Born in Regensburg or nearby Altdorf, he learned art from his father Ulrich, a painter and miniaturist. Altdorfer spent most of his life in Regensburg, becoming a citizen in 1505 and later serving as the city's official architect and a m...