Is there a more cinematic painting than Albrecht Altdorfer’s sweeping Battle of Alexander at Issus?

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4/4 Blazing sun sets over the mountains at the end of a long day's battle at Issus. Amazing work by Albrecht Altdorfer, whose day is today.

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Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian King Darius clash in the Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.

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Petit généalogie de sorcières
Albrecht Dürer, Quatre sorcières, 1497
puis la Sorcière, 1500
Altdorfer, Le départ pour le sabbat, 1506
Hans Baldung, Les sorcières, 1510 🧹

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3/3 Two landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (d. OTD 1538): a painting, and an etching with watercolor, showing scenes from the Regensburg area in 1520s.

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4/4 Blazing sun sets over the mountains at the end of a long day's battle at Issus. Amazing work by Albrecht Altdorfer, whose day is today.

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Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian king Darius clash in Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.

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Au Louvre, la riche et foisonnante exposition consacrée à Albrecht Altdorfer, nous fait découvrir toute l’étendue du talent d’un artiste important de la Renaissance allemande. Et c’est passionnant.

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Christ on the Cross
oil on wood
75 cm x 57,5 cm
ca. 1520
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Albrecht Altdorfer

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The Battle of Alexander at Issus (1529)-Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece, portrays the victory of Alexander the Great over Darius III of Persia. The painting is said to induce feelings of perplexity and unease. War as an unholy spectacle, a frozen prophecy.

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Landscape with a Footbridge, by Albrecht Altdorfer

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The birth of European landscape - Altdorfer (c.1520-25)

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2/2 Two landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (d. OTD 1538): painting, and etching with watercolor, showing scenes from the Regensburg area in the 1520s.

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