1526 · Skopia

Showing 4 works across all media from 1526

Religious painting · Northern Renaissance

The Four Apostles

1526 · Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Dürer gave the panels to the Nuremberg council with Luther's words inscribed below, warning the city's rulers against false prophets. His last great work.

★ 7.3

Religious painting · Renaissance

Christ Carrying the Cross (Lotto)

Lorenzo Lotto

1526 · Louvre, Paris

Lotto crops the Passion down to one tear-streaked head at the surface, with soldiers' hands coming in from the edges of the frame.

★ 5.4

Religious painting · Northern Renaissance

Ecce Homo (Matsys)

Quentin Matsys

1526 · Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Christ stands with his eyes lowered while the faces around him are twisted into snarls. Matsys made ugliness do the moral work.

★ 4.8

The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

Martin Luther

1526

★ 4.5