Museum Exhibition
Layered Narratives: The Northern Renaissance Gallery
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From October 3, 2023
The redesigned Northern Renaissance gallery showcases highlights and new acquisitions, placing The Met’s collection in early modern northern Europe.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Hans Daucher
Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V
ca. 1522
Honestone (Jurassic limestone), traces of gilding
Overall (confirmed): 11 1/8 × 18 7/16 × 1 3/4 in. (28.3 × 46.8 × 4.4 cm)
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Joachim Deschler
Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565)
1553
Bronze
Diameter (Confirmed): 2 5/8 in. × 7/16 in. (66.8 × 10.6 mm)
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Pieter Claesz
Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
1628
Oil on wood
9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (24.1 x 35.9 cm)
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Esias zur Linden
Ship (Nef)
ca. 1609–20
Partly gilded silver
wt. confirmed: 19 1/2 × 3 1/8 × 8 1/2 in., 26.453oz. (49.5 × 7.9 × 21.6 cm, 750g)
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Albrecht Dürer
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
ca. 1498
Black ink on carved pearwood
15 1/2 × 11 1/8 × 1 in. (39.4 × 28.3 × 2.6 cm)
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Wenzel Jamnitzer
Mortar
ca. 1550
Bronze
diameter at rim, wt. confirmed: 4 15/16 × 6 1/2 in., 51.142oz. (12.5 × 16.5 cm, 1450g)
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