Art Institute of Chicago
Young Woman Attacked by Death (The Ravisher)
Albrecht Dürer
- Date
- c. 1495
- Medium
- Engraving in black on off-white laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Albrecht Dürer produced a number of early prints warning against the pleasures of the flesh, including the Ill-Assorted Couple . Perhaps the most insidious to modern eyes is this seductively velvety engraving. The ravisher’s young victim writhes on a fence much like the one often occupied by the Virgin Mary in other Dürer engravings. Whether she has fallen into the hands of a lusty wild man or Death himself, both her virtue and her life are clearly at stake. In a maelstrom of violent wind, his bony arms reach around her waist and pull tightly at her skirts.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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