Ascension of Christ

Cleveland Museum of Art

Ascension of Christ

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5

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Forty days after his Resurrection, Christ made his final appearance to his apostles. The story of the Ascension (Acts 1:9-12) tells that Christ's apostles were standing with him on the Mount of Olives when he was lifted up and taken to heaven in a cloud. Dürer depicted Christ with the traditional signs of his role as world saviour-making a gesture of blessing with his right hand and holding a cross-topped globe in his left. The artist included cherubs in the cloud, along with Christ's footprints, which, according to later tradition, were preserved on the Mount of Olives.

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Cleveland Museum of Art’s catalogue record

Medium
pen and brown ink
Credit Line
Gift of the Hanna Fund
Type of artwork
Drawing
Department
Drawings

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creation_date
c. 1515

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Dürer's footprints tell the real story here. According to tradition, Christ's footprints were preserved on the Mount of Olives, and Dürer included them right at the base of this 1515 pen and brown ink drawing, the last traces of a body already rising into cloud. Christ ascends at the center, robes billowing, his right hand raised in blessing and his left gripping a cross-topped globe, with cherubs tumbling beside him. This sheet survives as a working drawing, capturing Dürer mid-thought, still solving the visual problem of making a body rise and remain human at once.

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A religious figure in robes is depicted floating amidst clouds, with a cross and a staff in hand.

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Provenance
Prince Heinrich Lubomirski, Castle Przeworst, Poland | Lubomirski Museum-Ossolinski National Institute, Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) | Prince Lubomirski | Prince Heinrich Lubomirski, Castle Przeworst, Poland (not in Lugt, not stamped); Lubomirski Museum-Ossolinski National Institute, Lemberg, Austrian Crownland of Galicia, to 1918 (Lwów, Poland to 1939, now Lviv, Ukraine) (stamped, in red ink, on fragment of old mount, now removed). Prince Georg Lubomirski (not in Lugt, not stamped, according to departmental cataloguing sheet). [Paul Drey, New York]
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Object ID
130151
Object Type
Drawing
  • 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.
Culture
Germany
  • Cleveland Museum of Art field “Culture” · copied as is
Medium
pen and brown ink
  • Cleveland Museum of Art field “Medium” · copied as is · Cleveland's 'technique' field holds materials.
Department
Drawings
  • 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 Hanna Fund
  • Cleveland Museum of Art field “Credit Line” · copied as is
Provenance
Prince Heinrich Lubomirski, Castle Przeworst, Poland | Lubomirski Museum-Ossolinski National Institute, Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) | Prince Lubomirski | Prince Heinrich Lubomirski, Castle Przeworst, Poland (not in Lugt, not stamped); Lubomirski Museum-Ossolinski National Institute, Lemberg, Austrian Crownland of Galicia, to 1918 (Lwów, Poland to 1939, now Lviv, Ukraine) (stamped, in red ink, on fragment of old mount, now removed). Prince Georg Lubomirski (not in Lugt, not stamped, according to departmental cataloguing sheet). [Paul Drey, New York]
  • Cleveland Museum of Art field “Provenance” · copied as is
Date
c. 1515
  • Cleveland Museum of Art field creation_date (museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
Begin Year
1510
  • Cleveland Museum of Art field creation_date_earliest (museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is
End Year
1520
  • Cleveland Museum of Art field creation_date_latest (museum’s label not yet confirmed) · copied as is

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