Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Prodigal Son
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-840f7214ff34
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
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Minneapolis Institute of Art’s catalogue record
- Dated
- 1496
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer
- Department
- European Art
- Credit
- Bequest of Herschel V. Jones
- Medium
- Engraving
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From LinkedCulture
In 1496, Albrecht Dürer made a striking choice. Instead of showing the Prodigal Son welcomed home, he froze the young nobleman at his lowest point, kneeling in mud among a surging crowd of pigs at a wooden trough, still wearing his fine clothes. Dürer's engraving captures bristled hog hides and rough timber farmyard walls with equal precision, proving that printmaking could rival painting in descriptive power. He was barely in his mid-twenties when he made it.
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- Object ID
- 47044
- Object Type
- Prints
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Classification” · the first available of several museum fields
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Object Name” · the first available of several museum fields
- Creator
- Albrecht Dürer
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Artist” · copied as is
- Medium
- Engraving
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Medium” · copied as is
- Department
- European Art
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Department” · copied as is
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Herschel V. Jones
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Credit” · copied as is
- Date
- 1496
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · copied as is
- Begin Year
- 1496
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
- End Year
- 1496
- Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
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