Brief Biography-Mathis (Gothardt/Neithard) Grünewald was born in Würzburg in 1474. The name Grünewald was accidentally attributed to him by Joachim von Sandrart, the art historian; his real name was Gothardt, and he had an adopted son called Neithard. Holbein the Elder tutored him in Augsburg. He later connected with the Archbishop of Mainz as an engineer and artist and became a court painter to Archbishop Uriel von Gemmingen, becoming appointed to do engineering works on his palace. He painted the Isenheim Altarpiece for the Antonite Abbey in Alsace, commissioned by the Antonite Order to help plague victims get protection from the saints depicted; he finished the altarpiece in 1515. The new archbishop, Albrecht of Brandenburg, kept Mathis working for many years. At the coronation of Emperor Charles V, he met Albrecht Dürer, who bestowed gifts on him in appreciation of his works. It was not long after this encounter that Mathis turned to Lutheranism. After the peasant revolt of 1525, the archbishop dismissed him for being a sympathiser, and he fled to Frankfurt. Grünewald endured a meagre existence in Frankfurt but retreated to Halle and worked as an engineer for a Lutheran magistrate. He died of the plague in 1528; his burial was in an unknown grave outside the town walls.