Coat of Arms with a Lion and a Cock

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Coat of Arms with a Lion and a Cock

Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-840f7214ff34

Date
c. 1503
Medium
Engraving
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
47060

The foliage in this mock coat of arms shows Albrecht Dürer's brilliant handling of pure ornament. Scholar Charles W. Talbot cited this print as evidence that history probably lost its greatest goldsmith when Dürer became an artist instead of a goldsmith like his father. This level of ornamental abandon was rarely, if ever, repeated in Dürer's oeuvre. Germany, Europe

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The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916

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