09 works, Today, October 28th, is Judas Cyriacus’s day, his story illustrated #299

Adam Elsheimer, 1603 – 1605
The Altarpiece Of The Exaltation Of The True Cross

The Digging for the Cross (bottom middle left), c. 1603 – 1605
Oil on copper
w107 x h133.6 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Adam Elsheimer, Elsheime, German painter and printmaker, recognized as an important figure in the development of 17th-century landscape painting, noted especially for his atmospheric use of light….

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