The Battle of Alexander at Issus is a 1529 oil painting by the German artist Albrecht Altdorfer, a pioneer of landscape art and a founding member of the Danube school. The painting portrays the 333 BC
Albrecht Altdorfer Schlacht bei Issus Google Art Project
Detail of Alexander the Great from the Alexander Mosaic c. 100 BC
Saint George in the Forest (1510)
A miniature from Triumphal Procession (1512–1516)
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The world landscape, a translation of the German Weltlandschaft, is a type of composition in Western painting showing an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint that includes mou
The Battle of Alexander at Issus
…painting is widely regarded as Altdorfer's masterpiece, and is one of the most famous examples of the type of Renaissance landscape painting known as the world landscape, which here reaches an unprecedented grandeur. Duke William IV of Bavaria commissioned The Battle of Alexander at Issus in 1528 as part of a set of…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563, 37.1 × 55.6 cm (14.6 × 21.9 in)
Detail from Patinir's St Jerome (National Gallery), between formations in the vicinity of Dinant.
Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, Joachim Patinir, c. 1515–1524, Prado
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Cornelis Massys, c. 1540