Coat-of-Arms with a Skull

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Coat-of-Arms with a Skull

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-840f7214ff34

From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record

The woman is dressed as well-to-do bride in the traditional garb of Nuremberg, Albrecht Dürer's hometown. In the Middle Ages, man dressed in furry costumes would sometimes cavort at wedding feasts, for as wild men, they celebrated the joys of the carnal side of marriage. Here the bride does not seem displeased by the tender words whispered by her hirsute suitor. But, with the distorted reflection of a skull-your skull-Dürer reminds us that all good things have to come to an end. Germany, Europe

LinkedCulture assembled this text from several fields of Minneapolis Institute of Art’s catalogue record, so it is not the museum’s own wording as published. See “How LinkedCulture maps this record” below.

Minneapolis Institute of Art’s catalogue record

Dated
c. 1503
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Department
European Art
Credit
Bequest of Herschel V. Jones
Medium
Engraving

Taken from LinkedCulture’s stored copy of Minneapolis Institute of Art’s record. A fresh capture of the museum’s own record has not been made for this object yet.

From LinkedCulture

A Nuremberg bride leans close to a fur-covered wild man while a heraldic shield beneath them holds not a noble crest, but a single human skull. Albrecht Dürer created this engraving around 1503, using the razor-precise metal-cutting technique that made him famous across Europe. He borrowed every convention of formal heraldry, the crested helmet, the flowing acanthus foliage, the winged eagle, then placed death exactly where a family symbol should be. The reminder is deliberate: no rank, no beauty, and no wedding joy escapes the same ending.

Written by LinkedCulture for its video on this object. Machine-generated (claude-sonnet-4-6), not yet reviewed by a person. It is not part of the museum’s record.

View at Minneapolis Institute of Art ↗

The authoritative record is held by Minneapolis Institute of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata. The fields above are the museum’s, under its own labels. LinkedCulture’s derived fields are listed separately below and marked as ours.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.9ifVAyiLbr_YPmNh.ZuIBx4LruItP2gM3S4Apcy_ZtwaYrsyjSG58dqNMxSTx5Dvh2ep9JWshmZI3EfTPfFzr5G_4gius4YrQaaj2iJnQf8hb8IPIVyC7q5E-ktf9UQLarAEhQvOur8ZlSw6Af9WXSbsy0l0P37lyf9WUktS_HN2q6JpfHhr0laNcWT9WSpcvtOeOKN5q4OI5QvSEiyuCpB68apt4PvDg8vpPlA_YM2-pmCQyhFuzq_K7nrCu-9bBPbNacT2vnWoLW8iqnN0uP8nwoUDi3wSee at Minneapolis Institute of Art QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.0CpwkRvPfLHLxmVQ.HtFi3y4sBojkxL3fA8PYctCR157PMI7BHB6nu9Asie6SMbYLIVSvRsSXrbMe_Pr6zb4WoSfJcC1QslPDebxEGKQUHSPs54AKBoir7J5KCb-DitNLT8xQr9IxJ__JChk-KLbGjp2T5o8odvn-AduumSSWCm43ZawdT-3b7enYoAgBd_ZFBu86q_dmaJlkhdbuCpMnfrYT-VTLOWkP6jb_-uHAGsXx1AaYwScu_a0QCGl1-QYblFJbp5h53gxeEIKGeeXyWCaVllk_hzX3kFt9
Open this page
See at Minneapolis Institute of Art
How LinkedCulture maps this record

To search objects from different museums together, LinkedCulture reads each museum’s record into a common set of fields. The values below are LinkedCulture’s, under LinkedCulture’s names. They are not Minneapolis Institute of Art’s wording; the museum’s own record is shown above under its own labels.

Object ID
47058
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
c. 1503
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · copied as is
Begin Year
1503
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
End Year
1503
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field

The museum’s own record has not been captured for this object yet, so the museum fields shown above are limited to values LinkedCulture stored unchanged.

LinkedCulture video

Coat-of-Arms with a Skull

Aug 19, 2026 · Short

YouTubeInstagram
Follow LinkedCultureYouTubeInstagramBluesky
Museum record

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Minneapolis Institute of Art and other institutions.