Literature:        Dodg. II, 378, 1. Pass. 16.

                        Hollst. 16. Kat. New Haven, 1969, 68.

                        W.19. Mielke, cat. Altdorfer, Berlin/Regensburg 1988, 190 d. 

This strong work depicts Joshua, the war-leader of the Israelites who captured Jericho, as a Maximilian knight. It was used as the titlepage of the Old Testament of the Lubeck Bible, completed in 1534. With an expressive affluent line, a very battle-weary Joshua – clad in his armour – is depicted seated on a rock. At the far left the mountain landscape with a fortress testifies to Erhard Altdorfer’s origins in the Danube school.