Marked by boils over his entire body, Job is sitting on the ground, covered only by a cloth. The demon, rendered in lively lines, brings darkness over the biblical figure. Stoically, almost unimpressed, Job endures the monster flying up to his head.
Artist Biography: Schäufelein, who was active in Dürer’s workshop in Nuremberg from 1503 and in Hans Holbein the Elder’s in Augsburg from 1509, was involved in the design of several woodcut illustrations for the important book projects Theuerdanck and Weisskunig for Emperor Maximilian I. The oeuvre of the artist, who was appointed municipal painter of Nördlingen in 1515, includes more than fifty altarpieces, more than a thousand woodcuts, and numerous drawings.
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