Cleveland Museum of Art

The Virgin of the Annunciation

Martin SchongauerLinkedCulture matchlcp-a6ab91b43bd5

Date: 1470–80
Medium: engraving
Culture: Germany
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 130524

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

This engraving is half of a two-print scene depicting the Annunciation to the Virgin, when the angel Gabriel told Mary she would miraculously give birth to the Son of God. Presumably buyers could purchase the prints separately, although Schongauer probably hoped people would want to collect them both. His engraved lines masterfully emulate different natural qualities and textures, for example the spiraling locks of hair and the lily, a symbol of Mary’s purity.

View at Cleveland Museum of Art ↗

The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page

See at Cleveland Museum of Art

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line: John L. Severance Fund

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.

The Angel of the Annunciation

Cleveland Museum of Art

#135140

The Virgin of the Annunciation

Art Institute of Chicago

#84749

The Annunciation

Minneapolis Institute of Art

#48023

The Annunciation

Getty Museum

#07aae12e-3f20-4793-b207-ec2df2ed56d7

The Annunciation, from "The Life of the Virgin"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#636651

The Annunciation

Getty Museum

#017b09f2-4654-47fa-b422-ba2ee23a5925

The Annunciation; on the left the archangel Gabriel approaches the praying Virgin Mary in her bedchamber, over her head a dove representing the Holy Ghost, in the sky above a figure of God the Father, from "The Passion of Christ", after Dürer

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#342712