Cleveland Museum of Art
The Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- 1504
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany, early 16th Century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136187
From LinkedCulture
This 1504 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer captures the moment two elderly people learn, against all expectation, that they will have a child. Joachim and Anna embrace at Jerusalem's Golden Gate beneath an ornate Gothic arch packed with scrolling foliage, while a crowd of onlookers gestures behind them. Dürer's monogram sits prominently at the lower center, and the dense crosshatching in the stonework and drapery pushed the woodcut medium further than any German artist had before him.
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What the image shows
A group of people gather around a central figure in a doorway, with a scenic view outside.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The first three woodcuts of Dürer’s narrative (1959.99.2-4) portray the events leading up to the Virgin’s birth. According to an apocryphal text, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, had remained childless into old age. After Joachim’s offering at the temple was rejected for this reason, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the wilderness to announce that his wife would soon bear a child. At this news, the two tenderly embraced at the city’s gate.
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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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