Master of the Acts of Mercy - The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (reverse) Giving Drink to the Thirsty - fine art print

Background information on the art print The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (reverse) Giving Drink to the Thirsty

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence; (reverse) Giving Drink to the Thirsty is a work of art created by the Austrian painter Master of the Acts of Mercy. The work of art has the following size Painted surface 29 x 18 3/8 in (73,7 x 46,7 cm). Oil on fir, (obverse) gold ground was applied by the Austrian artist as the technique for the masterpiece. Today, this work of art is included in the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. The public domain piece of art is being supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of The Jack and Belle Linsky Foundation, 1981. : Gift of The Jack and Belle Linsky Foundation, 1981. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a side ratio of 2 : 3, which means that the length is 33% shorter than the width. Master of the Acts of Mercy was a painter from Austria, whose artistic style was mainly Northern Renaissance. The Northern Renaissance artist was born in the year 1460 and deceased at the age of 10 in 1470.

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• Aluminium dibond print: This is a metal print manufactured on aluminium dibond with an outstanding effect of depth, which makes a fashionable impression thanks to a surface , which is non-reflective. For the Direct Aluminium Dibond print, we print your chosen artwork right onto the surface of the white-primed aluminum composite. The bright parts of the original artwork shimmer with a silky gloss, however without the glow.
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• Acrylic glass print: The acrylic glass print, often referred to as a UV print on plexiglass, will transform the original work of art into magnificient décor. Additionally, the acrylic glass print offers a great alternative to aluminium and canvas prints. Your own copy of the artwork is being manufactured with the help of state-of-the-art UV print technology. It creates sharp, vibrant color tones. The great upside of an acrylic glass fine art copy is that contrasts plus image details become more visible thanks to the fine gradation. Our plexiglass protects your chosen art replica against sunlight and external influences for many decades.

Important legal note: We try everythig possible to depict the art products as closely as possible and to illustrate them visually. However, the colors of the print materials, as well as the imprint can differ slightly from the representation on the device's screen. Depending on your settings of your screen and the condition of the surface, color pigments may not be printed as exactly as the digital version on this website. In view of the fact that our art reproductions are processed and printed manually, there might as well be slight variations in the exact position and the size of the motif.

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This panel was orginally part of an altarpiece to which two panels in the Städtisches Museum at Trier—Beheading of John the Baptist (with Harboring the Pilgrim on the reverse), and The Feast of Herod (with Feeding the Hungry on the reverse)—also belonged. When the altarpiece was closed, the Acts of Mercy could be seen while the opened altarpiece showed the gold-ground paintings with scenes from the life of John the Baptist and Saint Lawrence. Since the Acts of Mercy depicted in the art of this period commonly numbered six, three panels are probably missing from the wings of the altarpiece, one with the Baptism of Christ, and two other scenes from the life of Saint Lawrence. There is no indication of the contents of the central panel. An altarpiece by the same hand is in the Nonnberg at Salzburg, where this panel may also have been painted.The aggressive realism and formal simplicity found here are characteristic of works made in Salzburg in the second half of the fifteenth century. Hatch marks to indicate shadows on Lawrence's grill suggest that the artist was familiar with the techniques of engraving and woodcutting, newly discovered art forms which probably originated in the Upper Rhine region.