Knight with bread and wine (Melchizedek)., Albrecht Altdorfer, artist, 1520-1526, Germany, engraving, Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 –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 as the main representative of the so-called Danube School, setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours. As an artist also making small, intricate engravings, as here, he is seen to belong to the Nuremberg Little Masters

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