The Ascension of Christ (detail)

1513 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

religious

This detail shows examples of "overdrawing," the linear application of brown and black paint to emphasize contours.

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About the Artist

Hans Süss von Kulmbach

1480 – 1522

German painter, pupil of Jacopo de' Barbari and follower of Dürer. He worked in Nuremberg and probably for a time in Cracow, Poland. His works include the Tucher altarpiece designed by Dürer in St Sebald's church, Nuremberg, altarpieces in churches in Cracow, Adoration of the Magi, and portraits.

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