Cleveland Museum of Art
Apocalypse: The Adoration of the Lamb—The Hymn of the Chosen
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- c. 1496–97, printed 1511
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 86498
From LinkedCulture
At just twenty-five years old, Albrecht Dürer designed this woodcut from his landmark Apocalypse series, printed in 1511 as part of the first major book conceived, designed, and published by an artist himself. The Lamb of God glows at the centre while an enormous crowd presses forward below, their palm fronds rising in dense vertical strokes across a curved horizon. Every shadow and volume here was carved entirely from wood grain, using hatching and swelling contour lines to rival the tonal range of painting itself.
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A religious procession with figures in robes, some holding staffs, under a radiant sun with a crown and cross.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph A. Pugliese
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