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Saint Paul, from The Martyrdom of the Apostles
Lucas Cranach the ElderLinkedCulture matchlcp-a38e74af5bec
- Date
- c. 1512
- Medium
- Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 45791
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Lucas Cranach’s depiction of the martyrdom of Saint Matthew gruesomely displays his decapitated head bouncing away from his body, which is still bleeding. This single-sheet impression dates from the first printing of the series in 1512. These woodblocks were later reused in a 1548 printing of The Apostles Creed , which also included tamer views of saints’ enshrined remains from Cranach’s 1509 Reliquary Book .
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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