- Christ among the Doctors (Dürer)
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Christ among the Doctors 
Artist Albrecht Dürer Year 1506 Type Oil on poplar panel Dimensions 65 cm × 80 cm (26 in × 31 in) Location Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Christ among the Doctors is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1506, now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain. The work dates to Dürer's sojourn in Venice, and was executed (according to the inscription Opus Quinque Dierum, meaning "Made in five days") hastily while he was working at the Feast of the Rosary altarpiece.
According to some sources, it could have been gifted to painter Giovanni Bellini. In the latter's house it was perhaps seen by Lorenzo Lotto, who used one of the figures in the painting for his Madonna with Child between Sts. Flavian and Onuphrius now in the Borghese Gallery. The subject had been already treated by Dürer in a woodcut of the Life of the Virgin series and in a panel of the Seven Sorrows Polyptych. However, in the Venetian work the German artist adopted a totally new composition, with the characters occupying the whole scene and surrounding the young Jesus, leaving a little room for the black background.
The character at the left of Jesus is a true caricature, perhaps inspired by one of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings seen by Dürer. The man in the lower right corner has a cartouche on his beret, a custom of the Pharisees. The one on the opposite side is perhaps a citation of Bellini.
Sources
- Costantino Porcu, ed (2004). Dürer. Milan: Rizzoli.
Albrecht Dürer Paintings Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents (1490) · Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70 (1497) · Haller Madonna (c. 1498) · Lamentation of Christ (attributed, c. 1498) · Portrait of Oswolt Krell (1499) · Portrait of Elsbeth Tucker (1499) · Seven Sorrows Polyptych (c. 1500) · Lamentation of Christ (c. 1500) · Bagnacavallo Madonna (before 1505) · Christ among the Doctors (1506) · Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman (1505) · Feast of the Rosary (1506) · Avarice (1507) · Praying Hands (c. 1508) · Adam and Eve (1507) · Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1508) · Life of the Virgin (1510-1511) · Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (1519) · Portrait of a Man (1521 or 24) · Portrait of Bernhart von Reesen (1521) · Portrait of Saint Jerome (1521) · The Four Apostles (1526) · Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher (1526) · Portrait of Jakob Muffel (1526)
Self-portraits Self-Portrait at the age of 13 (drawing, 1484) · Self-Portrait c 1492 (drawing, 1492) · Self-Portrait (1493) · Self-portrait at 26 (1498) · Self-Portrait at 28 (1500)Still life / nature View of Arco (1495) · Three Linden Trees (c. 1494) · The House by the Pond (c 1497) · Young Hare (1502) · Little Piece of Turf (1502) · Great Piece of Turf (1503) · Wing of a Roller (1512) · Rhinoceros (1516)Woodcuts / engravings The Child Jesus Holding the Globe (1493) · Dürer's Wife Anges (1494) · The Muse Thalia (1495/96) · Angel with a Lute (1497) · Apocalypse (1498) · Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon (1498) · The Four Witches (1497) · The Sea Monster (1498-1500) · Saint Sebastian at the Column (1500) · Visitation (1503) · Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate (1504) · Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) · Melencolia I (1514) · Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) · Triumphal Arch (1515) · Head of a Walrus (1514)Drawings Portrait of the artist's mother at the age of 63 (1514)Alterpieces The Jabach Alterpiece (c. 1500) · The Heller Alterpiece (c. 1508) · Adoration of the Trinity (1511)Categories:- Dürer paintings and prints
- 1506 works
- Collections of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
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