# Marcus Curtius Plunging into the Chasm, in Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder made this. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A Roman knight on horseback plunges into a dark chasm that has opened in the ground before a domed pavilion, while onlookers, some nude in the classical manner, crowd around.

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## The work

- Medium: woodcut
- Type: Print
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1943.3.2844
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Lucas Cranach the Elder](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/lucas-cranach-the-elder), German, 1472–1553

Cranach worked in Vienna before becoming court painter to the Electors of Saxony at Wittenberg in 1505, a post he held for decades.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Lucas Cranach the Elder's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-lucas-cranach-the-elder?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Northern Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/northern-renaissance?hang=749) (62 works)
- [15th-century Germany](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/15-germany?hang=749) (7 works)

## Get it

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- [The work's page](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/marcus-curtius-plunging-into-the-chasm-nga-6020)