Holy Family with an Angel

Albrecht Altdorfer painted this Holy Family with an Angel around 1515 for the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Altdorfer's devotional paintings transform traditional subjects through his revolutionary treatment of light and landscape Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship It is now held at The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, built to house the Habsburg imperial collections.

The panel demonstrates Altdorfer's characteristic integration of figures within a luminous landscape setting, with extraordinary sensitivity to atmospheric light creating a devotional image of unusual poetic intensity.