Christ among the Doctors

Artist Albrecht Drer

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 (Drer)
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Christ among the Doctors is an oil painting by Albrecht
Drer, dating to 1506, now in the Museo Thyssen-
Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain. The work dates to Drer'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 given 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 Drer 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 Drer. 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). Drer. Milan: Rizzoli.
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