Cleveland Museum of Art

The Death of the Virgin

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5

Date: 1510
Medium: woodcut
Culture: Germany, early 16th Century
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 136182

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Dürer depicted the scene of the Virgin’s death (1959.99.18) as an intimate one, with the apostles keeping vigil around her deathbed. Three days later they witnessed Mary’s bodily assumption into paradise where she was crowned the Queen of Heaven (1959.99.19). The final print (1959.99.20), which some believe was conceived independently from the series because it falls outside of the typical narrative, shows the Virgin in a domestic setting surrounded by several saints, angels, and putti that celebrate her life-an especially fitting way to end the series.

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Credit line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Provenance: ?–1959: (William H. Schab Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1959–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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