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Adam Elsheimer

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Multi-panel altarpiece with six scenes of the Virgin Mary's life and a central heavenly coronation scene with angels.

Hausaltar mit sechs Szenen aus dem Leben der Jungfrau Maria

1598

Dark landscape with an angel in a gold tunic and a young man in white walking past red poppies under trees.

Tobiah and the Angel

1593-1610

Crowded scene of figures, livestock and a white horse before classical columns and ruins, under a cloudy sky.

Il Contento

1607

Dark forest landscape with a river, grazing cattle, and a red-clad piper beside a gnarled tree under a cloudy sky.

Forest

Night landscape with a man leading a donkey carrying a woman and child past a campfire, under stars and moonlight over water.

The Flight into Egypt

1609

Night scene of castaways warming by a bonfire on a rocky coast beside a stormy sea, with a wrecked ship in the surf.

Saint Paul on Malta

1600

Painting of a reclining nude woman in red drapery beside a figure in armor, with small figures at a campfire in a dark forest

Apollo and Coronis

1606

Night painting of a burning city with a man carrying an old man on his shoulders in the foreground and a wooden horse nearby.

The Burning of Troy

1600

Painting of a reclining nude woman in a forest, with small figures around a fire by a pond under a cloudy sky.

Coronis and Apollo

1607

Night landscape with a woman and child on a donkey, a man in red leading them, a campfire, cattle, and a moonlit lake.

The Rest on The Flight into Egypt

Painting of a reclining nude woman in red drapery beside a figure with a fruit basket, in a dark forest with a cupid.

Venus and Cupid

1600

Dark candlelit study with scholars, bookshelves, a globe and an open book, painted by Adam Elsheimer.

Minerva as patroness of Arts and Sciences

1600

Evening landscape with dark trees at left, three travelers on a path, a shepherd with sheep, and a distant town under a blue

Landscape with the Walk to Emmaus

1605

Small painting of a red-clad youth pointing at a seated bearded man beside a cow in a wooded landscape.

Mercury and Battus

1605

Small painting of a dawn landscape with dark trees on the left, a red-clad figure, and a hazy valley under a glowing sky.

Morgenlandschaft (Aurora)

1606

Dark landscape of people and animals fleeing a flood, climbing trees and rocks, with a distant city under a stormy sky.

The Great Flood

1599

Small painting of horses and soldiers in turmoil under a divine light breaking through storm clouds, with a tree at left.

The Conversion of St. Paul

1598

Small painting of Pan pursuing the nymph Syrinx through a forest, with dancing figures in a sunlit meadow beyond.

Pan and Syrinx

1605

Dim interior where a nude man lies on a wooden cross as a bishop and onlookers watch, painted in 1603.

The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross: The Testing of the Cross (middle right)

1603

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated Madonna with infant surrounded by turbaned figures and an ox in a stable.

Adoration of the kings

Etching of young Tobias walking with a winged angel through a dark, cloud-filled landscape with a staff.

Tobias en de engel

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ served by angels at a table in a wooded landscape, with putti and a rocky hill.

Christus nach den drei Versuchungen von Engeln bedient

1605

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of trees, figures with animals on a path, and a distant plain under open sky.

Landschaft aus der römischen Campagna