Christ among the Doctors (Dürer)

Christ among the Doctors

Artist	Albrecht Dürer
Year	1506
Type	Oil on poplar panel
Dimensions	65 cm × 80 cm (26 in × 31 in)
Location	Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Christ among the Doctors is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1506, now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain. The work dates to Dürer's sojourn in Venice, and was executed (according to the inscription Opus Quinque Dierum, meaning "Made in five days") hastily while he was working at the Feast of the Rosary altarpiece.

According to some sources, it could have been given to painter Giovanni Bellini. In the latter's house it was perhaps seen by Lorenzo Lotto, who used one of the figures in the painting for his Madonna with Child between Sts. Flavian and Onuphrius now in the Borghese Gallery. The subject had been already treated by Dürer in a woodcut of the Life of the Virgin series and in a panel of the Seven Sorrows Polyptych. However, in the Venetian work the German artist adopted a totally new composition, with the characters occupying the whole scene and surrounding the young Jesus, leaving a little room for the black background.

The topic is the Finding in the Temple episode from Jesus' childhood, found in the Gospel of Luke. The character at the left of Jesus is a true caricature, perhaps inspired by one of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings seen by Dürer. The man in the lower right corner has a cartouche on his beret, a custom of the Pharisees. The one on the opposite side is perhaps a citation of Bellini.

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Costantino Porcu, ed. (2004). Dürer. Milan: Rizzoli.

Albrecht Dürer

Paintings	Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents (1490) Portrait of Frederick III of Saxony (1496) St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1496) Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70 (1497) Haller Madonna (c. 1498) Lamentation of Christ (attributed, c. 1498) Portrait of Oswolt Krell (1499) Portrait of Elsbeth Tucker (1499) Seven Sorrows Polyptych (c. 1500) Lamentation of Christ (c. 1500) Adoration of the Magi (1504) Bagnacavallo Madonna (before 1505) Christ among the Doctors (1506) Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman (1505) Feast of the Rosary (1506) Avarice (1507) Adam and Eve (1507) Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1508) Life of the Virgin (1510–1511) The Suicide of Lucretia (1518) Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (1519) Portrait of Jakob Fugger (c. 1520) Portrait of a Man (1521 or 1524) Portrait of Bernhart von Reesen (1521) Saint Jerome in His Study (1521) The Four Apostles (1526) Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher (1526) Portrait of Jakob Muffel (1526) Virgin of the Pear (1526)

Self-portraits	Self-Portrait at the age of 13 (drawing, 1484) Self-Portrait c 1492 (drawing, 1492) Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (1493) Self-Portrait at 26 (1498) Self-Portrait at 28 (1500)

Still life / nature	View of Arco (1495) Three Linden Trees (c. 1494) The House by the Pond (c 1497) Young Hare (1502) Little Piece of Turf (1502) Great Piece of Turf (1503) Wing of a European Roller (1512) Rhinoceros (1516)

Woodcuts and engravings	The Child Jesus Holding the Globe (1493) Dürer's Wife Agnes (1494) The Holy Family with the Dragonfly (1495) The Muse Thalia (1495–96) Angel with a Lute (1497) Apocalypse (1498) Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon (1498) The Four Witches (1497) The Sea Monster (1498–1500) Saint Sebastian at the Column (1500) Visitation (1503) Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate (1504) Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) Melencolia I (1514) Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) Triumphal Arch (1515) Head of a Walrus (1514) Large Triumphal Carriage (1522)

Drawings	Madonna of the Animals (c. 1503) Praying Hands (c. 1508) Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63 (1514)

Altarpieces	Dresden Altarpiece (c. 1496–1497/1503–1504) Paumgartner Altarpiece (c. 1500) Jabach Altarpiece (c. 1503–1504) Heller Altarpiece (c. 1508) Adoration of the Trinity (1511)

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