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The Entombment, from The Fall and Redemption of Man

Albrecht Altdorfer

Date: 1513
Medium: Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
Culture: Germany
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago

Albrecht Altdorfer, known as one of the Little Masters (in German, Kleinmeister) along with Georg Pencz and the brothers Barthel and Sebald Beham, excelled at creating prints on a minute scale, whether in intaglio or relief. This woodcuts is part of a series entitled The Fall and Redemption of Man contrasting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise with Christ’s Passion narrative. Connoisseurs would have collected these diminutive prints as an entire cycle and often pasted them into albums.

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