# Marcus Curtius Plunging into the Chasm, in The Northern Renaissance

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

- [More by Lucas Cranach the Elder](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/lucas-cranach-the-elder?hang=749) (4 works)
- [More prints of the 15th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/print-15?hang=749) (16 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)