I had a therapeutic hour at the end of the day in amongst the Old Master paintings on the first floor of the Kunstmuseum.
A Cranach of Lucretia:-
Grünewald of the Crucifixion:-
An amazing Altdorfer of The Resurrection:-
It must be one of the greatest Holbeins of The Dead Christ (1521):-
Holbein of Bonifacius Amerbach (1519):-
Erasmus himself in 1532:-
And a Frans van Mieris of A Young Woman with a Feather Fan Prepared to Go Out:-
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What treasures ! An amazing Collection. Why is it not more written about?
Yes, a wonderful museum and collection. But Basel is not really a conventional tourist destination. Charles
Looking at the Grünewald and the intensity of the face of his Christ, one wonders how many people in true agony he had seen in that much harder time.
Quite a few I should imagine, given the intensity of the image. Plague ? Charles