Triptych with The Lamentation of Christ (center), St. Barbara (left wing), St. Catherine of Alexandria (right wing), The Annunciation (reverse wings)

c. 1500

Triptych with The Lamentation of Christ (center), St. Barbara (left wing), St. Catherine of Alexandria (right wing), The Annunciation (reverse wings), c. 1500. Master of the Krainburg Altar (Austrian, active c. 1485–1510). Center: oil on poplar; Wings: oil and gold leaf on poplar panel; center: 45.7 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.); wings: 51 x 15.9 cm (20 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2022.86 The triptych shows an exact representation of Jerusalem. The model is a woodcut by Erhard Reuwich for the publication Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, by Bernhard von Breydenbach, published in Mainz in 1486. This book became a bestseller, reprinted thirteen times over the next three decades. The painter who was active in today’s Slovenia around 1500 adapted this for his depiction of the Lamentation of Christ. The Master of Krainburg was active in the area of today's Slovenia and should therefore be called the Master of Kranj in Slovenian.