Noli me Tangere

Altdorfer employed the woodcut method, carving fine lines into a wood block to produce the print’s sharp chiaroscuro effects. The use of laid paper, with its characteristic ribbed texture, enhances the tonal depth. The work reflects the precision associated with the Nuremberg Little Masters while retaining Altdorfer’s characteristic attention to natural detail.

Created during Altdorfer’s productive period in Regensburg, the print belongs to his early forays into printmaking alongside his painting career. Although specific ownership records are scarce, the piece is documented among early 16th‑century German prints that circulated among collectors of religious imagery.

*Noli me Tangere* emerges at a time when Northern artists were beginning to treat landscape as a subject in its own right, a hallmark of the Danube School. Altdorfer’s integration of a biblical narrative within a detailed natural setting anticipates later developments in genre landscape and underscores the period’s expanding visual vocabulary.