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Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

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Dürer painted numerous different martyrdom scenes within a forest with clearings and cliffs. In the foreground are crucifixions, decapitations, crushing with a hammer. The Persian King is portrayed as an Ottoman sultan, riding a horse on the right. The executioners also wear gaudy
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At the center of the crowded scene, dressed in black, are two characters who walk placidly, apparently unaware of the horrors around them: one is Dürer's self-portrait (holding his signature), the other his friend and humanist
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of some ten years before, but in the new work he eliminated some macabre details such as the torture of the bishop
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The painting illustrates the legendary martyrdom of ten thousand Christian soldiers perpetrated on
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The work was repeatedly mentioned in the correspondence between the artist and
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99 cm × 87 cm (39 in × 34 in)
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which hangs from the artist's self-portrait in the center, saying
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The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bench
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Iste faciebat Ano Domini 1508 Albertus Dürer Aleman
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Index


Albrecht Dürer
transferred to canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna
oil painting
Albrecht Dürer
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna
Austria
cartouche
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony
All Saints' Church, Wittenberg
Ten thousand martyrs

woodcut
Acacius

Jakob Heller
Frankfurt
florins
Mount Ararat
Shapur I
Hadrian
Antoninus Pius
Diocletian
Ottoman dress
Conrad Celtes
List of paintings by Albrecht Dürer

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