1510
oil
panel
From the collection of Uffizi Gallery
The Departure of Saint Florian is a 1510 oil by Albrecht Altdorfer, a Early Baroque Italian work, held at Uffizi Gallery.
The Departure of Saint Florian is an oil painting by Albrecht Altdorfer, the German artist who lived from about 1480 to 1538. It was created around 1510 and shows a moment of farewell. A source note says the work is also dated to roughly 1518‑1520, and it now hangs in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery. The painting is on panel, using the same oil technique Altdorfer favored for his early religious scenes. You might want to look up the museum: Uffizi Gallery.
Saint Florian Taking Leave of the Monastery is an oil-on-panel painting by German artist Albrecht Altdorfer, dating from around 1518–1520. It is held in the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence.
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The work, analogous to the canvas The Martyrdom of Saint Florian, also in the Uffizi, is part of a series of at least seven panels of a polyptych on episodes about the life of Saint Florian, named Stories of Saint Florian. The other five panels are in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, in Nuremberg, in number of three, one is in the Národní Galerie, in Prague and the other is held in a private collection in Berlin. The complete work was to resemble the Polyptych of the Stories of Saint Sebastian and of the Passion, painted by the same artist in Regensburg, for the collegiate church of Linz, in…
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Saint Florian, a Roman soldier from Enns, according to the tradition, had defended the Christians of Upper Austria in 304, during emperor Diocletian persecutions, which led to his martyrdom by means of tying a grindstone around his neck and throwing him into the Inn River. As a legend tells that he was able to extinguish a fire with a single bucket of water, he was often represented as a protector against fire. In the painting, the young saint, dressed as a pilgrim, leaves the city, taking leave with the local dignitaries. A procession accompanies him. At the left is the arch of the city, and…
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Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 – 12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main…
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