Why it matters
Ten thousand Christian soldiers are martyred on Mount Ararat, while Dürer himself stands in the centre holding a cartouche with his signature. Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, chose the subject because his relics included some of the martyrs.
Did you know?
- It is dated 1508.
- It was made for the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg.
- Dürer had treated the subject in a woodcut ten years earlier.
Based on the Wikipedia article Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (CC BY-SA 4.0).
