Return to Nuremberg; paintings (1507-1509)

The influence of Dürer's Italian trip can be seen in the two life-size panels of Adam and Eve, which he painted soon after his return in February 1507. Soon after Dürer's return to Nuremberg, Frederick the Wise commissioned yet another altarpiece, this one for the relic chamber of his church at Wittenberg. Completed in 1508, it is a gruesome depiction of The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand.

Dürer was also working on an altarpiece for the Frankfurt cloth merchant Jacob Heller. While away in Venice his workshop had already begun painting the wings and Dürer himself did the central panel depicting the Coronation of the Virgin. The panel was destroyed in a fire at the Residenz in Munich in 1729. Only an early seventeenth-century copy of the central panel survives.