Cleveland Museum of Art
Life of the Virgin: Rejection of Joachim's Sacrifice
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- 1504–1505
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany, early 16th Century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 104124
From LinkedCulture
This woodcut begins not with Mary, but with her father being turned away in shame. Albrecht Dürer carved this scene around 1504 to 1505 as the opening image of his Life of the Virgin series, showing the elderly Joachim reaching toward a priest who refuses his offering at a cloth-draped altar, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers beneath a crumbling arch. Every face in that packed scene, every fold of drapery, came from a single block of wood, making it a landmark of printmaking technique.
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A group of people gathered around a table in a dimly lit room.
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- Credit line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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