Cleveland Museum of Art
Life of the Virgin: The Annunciation
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
Cleveland Museum of Art’s catalogue record
- Medium
- woodcut
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Type of artwork
- Print
- Department
- Prints
Also in Cleveland Museum of Art’s record. The museum’s own label for these fields has not been confirmed yet, so each is named by its field in the museum’s data.
- creation_date
- 1504–1505
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From LinkedCulture
In Albrecht Dürer's 1504 woodcut of the Annunciation, Gabriel's wings stretch wide inside a vaulted stone interior that feels almost impossibly deep for a medium carved from wood. Every shadow, every curve of billowing robe, every ray of light around the descending dove was planned in reverse before a single print was pulled. This piece, part of Dürer's Life of the Virgin series, proved that woodcut could rival the richness of painting itself, and it changed what printmakers believed the medium could do.
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An angel kneels before a seated woman, holding a scroll, in a detailed architectural setting.
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- Object ID
- 104131
- Object Type
- Print
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Type of artwork” · copied as is
- Creator
- Albrecht Dürer
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
creators(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field · Artist-role creator's description with life dates removed.
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
- Culture
- Germany, early 16th Century
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Culture” · copied as is
- Medium
- woodcut
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Medium” · copied as is · Cleveland's 'technique' field holds materials.
- Department
- Prints
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Department” · copied as is
- Tags
- male
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
tags(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · combined from several museum fields - Cleveland Museum of Art field
artists_tags(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · combined from several museum fields
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Cleveland Museum of Art field “Credit Line” · copied as is
- Date
- 1504–1505
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
creation_date(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
- Begin Year
- 1504
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
creation_date_earliest(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
- End Year
- 1505
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
creation_date_latest(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
- Cleveland Museum of Art field
The museum’s own record has not been captured for this object yet, so the museum fields shown above are limited to values LinkedCulture stored unchanged.
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