Why it matters
Joseph of Arimathea holds the dead Christ among the mourning women. The goldsmith Jakob Glimm commissioned it as a memorial to his first wife, Margaret Holzmann.
Did you know?
- It dates from around 1500.
- Removal of overpainting in 1924 revealed the small donor figures.
- It is also called the Glimm Lamentation.
Based on the Wikipedia article Lamentation of Christ (Dürer, Munich) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
