Weihenstephaner Altar: Tod des hl. Korbinian Rückseite: Christus am Ölberg

Jan Polack painted this panel depicting the Death of Saint Korbinian for the Weihenstephan Altar around 1484, with the Agony in the Garden on the reverse. Korbinian was the first bishop of Freising and patron of the Weihenstephan monastery. Polack's altarpiece celebrating the monastery's founder saint was a major commission demonstrating his status as Munich's leading painter. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting.

Oil on panel painted on both sides for an altarpiece wing. Polack's vigorous narrative style serves both the hagiographic scene and the Passion subject on the reverse.