The Birth of Christ by Albrecht Altdorfer - about 1520/25 - 44,5 × 36,1 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum The Birth of Christ by Albrecht Altdorfer - about 1520/25 - 44,5 × 36,1 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Birth of Christ

oil on wood • 44,5 × 36,1 cm
  • Albrecht Altdorfer - c. 1480 - February 12, 1538 Albrecht Altdorfer about 1520/25

Merry Christmas everyone! We present today's Renaissance masterpiece thanks to our beloved Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.  : )

The Holy Family is placed beneath an open sky with a bit of freshly fallen snow covering the ground. It is night, but the darkness is illuminated by many mysterious sources of light. Music-making angels have descended everywhere, and a beam of light emanates from each of them. But they are outshone by far by the wonderful radiance of the newly born child. With its mixture of the atmospheric and the dramatic, the decay and growth of nature, and of light and color, this picture is a characteristic work of the Danube school.

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