Cleveland Museum of Art
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- 1510
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany, early 16th Century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136183
From LinkedCulture
Three days after the apostles kept vigil at Mary's deathbed, they witnessed this moment: her body rising into paradise. In Albrecht Dürer's 1510 woodcut from his Life of the Virgin series, the composition splits earth from heaven, with figures below craning upward in awe while the Virgin floats serenely above as a crown is placed on her head. Dense cross-hatching carves divine light out of bare wood with a precision that rivals fine engraving. It is a theological journey compressed into a single page.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Dürer depicted the scene of the Virgin’s death (1959.99.18) as an intimate one, with the apostles keeping vigil around her deathbed. Three days later they witnessed Mary’s bodily assumption into paradise where she was crowned the Queen of Heaven (1959.99.19). The final print (1959.99.20), which some believe was conceived independently from the series because it falls outside of the typical narrative, shows the Virgin in a domestic setting surrounded by several saints, angels, and putti that celebrate her life-an especially fitting way to end the series.
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- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1959: (William H. Schab Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1959–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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