Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings : Adam and Eve ( 1507 ) , The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508 , for Frederick of Saxony ) , Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ) , the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509 , for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ) , and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511 , for Matthaeus Landauer ) .
He made his four best paintings , Adam and Eve ( 1507 ) , Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ) , the altarpiece the Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509 ) , and the Adoration of the Trinity by all the Saints ( 1511 ) .