The two New Testament scenes on view here reveal the influence of the Rembrandt Renaissance initiated in Germany in mid century and featuring a chiaroscuro manner of execution. Zick carried out many variations of these two motifs with their…

In the gospel accounts of the Passion we are told that, on the night before his crucifixion, Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives with three of his disciples, Peter, James and John. Filled with mortal dread, he begged God…

This panel painting, which was not split into two halves until the eighteenth century, stood on the high altar of the Benedictine Abbey of San Pietro in the Umbrian city of Perugia from the 1330s onward as an altar retable painted on both sides.…

left wing: Annunciation, Visitation, Birth of Christ, Adoration of the Magi;
right wing: St. Michael, Coronation of the Virgin, St. Elizabeth, Death of the Virgin   The wings of the altar retable from the Premonstratensian Abbey of Altenberg…

The Städel owns four panels originally belonging to the work identifying this anonymous painter; the others are in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. The doubly transformable retable is thought to have come from the Church of St. James in Pfullendorf…

Martin Schongauer’s most gifted successor monogrammed his engravings with the initials BM and also left a handful of paintings to posterity. His Birth of Christ is one of the earliest depictions of Christmas Eve in a snowy landscape. The red shine…

In this nocturne, Baldung reduced the Biblical description to the bare necessities and placed the Birth of Christ in the context of the Passion. Wearing an expression of suffering, the astonishingly adult-like child gathers his swaddling clothes…

Due to building measures for the expansion of the Städel Museum, several artworks from the collection cannot be shown at the moment. These paintings were lent to exhibitions abroad but can presumably be seen again at the Städel Museum in the…

Active exclusively in Rome, Claude Gellée, known as Lorrain (1600–82), evaded the influence of the Academy almost entirely. His central theme was landscape. In the painting Christ Appears in Front of Mary Magdalene of 1681, the setting is enhanced…

This engraving is one of the monumental late masterpieces of Rembrandt’s graphic work. It depicts the moment when Pilate points at the bound Jesus asking the people whether he shall be released. The large plate is executed exclusively in the…