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Coat of Arms with Lion and Rooster

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-6cf5b58b91f0

Date: c. 1503
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Culture: Germany
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 4066

Albrecht Dürer’s imaginary coat of arms is one of the Art Institute’s finest impressions, with a great delicacy of line and range of tonal values and textures. Though he produced a number of literal portraits as well as abstract family crests, Dürer’s over-the-top treatment of the flowing drapery, and the seemingly living symbols—crowing rooster, and lion rampant— on the crest and shield suggest the artist enjoyed taking a stale iconographic convention to its extremes.

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Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.

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Object type: AAT300041273

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