Melchior Feselen, an historical painter, of
Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...
, lived at the same time as
Altdorfer, whose works he imitated with
assiduity
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. Though he was inferior to that artist, his paintings are rich in composition, with a great number of figures highly finished, and in a style quite peculiar to himself. He died at
Ingolstadt in 1538. Among his paintings there are:
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Darmstadt. Gallery. ''The Crucifixion''.
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Munich. Gallery. ''The Siege of Rome by Porsena'', 1529, and ''Caesar conquering the town Alesia in Gaul'', 1533.
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Nuremberg. Museum. ''The Adoration of the Magi'', 1531.
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Ratisbon. Hist. Soc. ''St. Mary of Egypt''.
See also
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List of German painters
References
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Year of birth unknown
1538 deaths
16th-century German painters
German male painters
People from Passau
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