# Vir Dolorum \(Man of Sorrows\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MASTER FRANCKE](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-francke-r8fdaa31b1d2cef>)
- Date: 1401-1450
- Technique: Panel, 92,5 x 67 cm

## Commentary

Master Francke \(or Frater Francke\), the great solitary Hamburg pioneer of German painting in the fifteenth century, returned to the theme of the Man of Sorrows at the end of his career in the famous work in Hamburg. The realism and knowledge of anatomy which he exhibits here cannot yet be seen in the early version of Leipzig \(c. 1420\).

## Related artworks

- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-francke-r8fdaa31b1d2cef/adoration-of-the-magi-r51030e088af4c3>)
- [Nativity](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-francke-r8fdaa31b1d2cef/nativity-r4bd48d123ae541>)
- [Vir Dolorum \(Man of Sorrows\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-francke-r8fdaa31b1d2cef/vir-dolorum-man-of-sorrows-r0fd3717c65ab18>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)