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Description: | The miraculous appearance of a stag with a crucifix between its horns is a pious legend attached to the lives of both St Eustace (a Roman soldier martyred probably under the Emperor Hadrian) and St Hubert (Bishop of Maastricht and Liege). Both, as a result of this event, were converted to Christianity. The Munich painter Hans Mielich situates the scene under a huge fir tree in a fanciful rocky northern landscape. In style, but also in details, for example the dog in the foreground, he is closely following Albrecht Dürer's engraving of the same subject of about 1501. | Subjects: | religion | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Mielich, Hans (German miniaturist, 1516-1573) Æ Previously attributed to manner of Cranach, Lucas, the elder (German painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1472-1553) Previously attributed to Altdorfer, Albrecht (German painter and printmaker, ca. 1480-1538) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8807... | Go to resource |
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