Title Page from The Life of the Virgin, First Edition, 1511

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Title Page from The Life of the Virgin, First Edition, 1511

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Germany, Europe Dimensions: 16 11/16 x 11 5/8 in. (42.39 x 29.53 cm) (image)

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Dated
1510 (1511)
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Department
European Art
Credit
Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1926
Medium
Woodcut

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Before you see a single scene from the story, Dürer puts the Virgin herself on the title page, enthroned on a crescent moon and blazing with light. This 1511 woodcut, made in Nuremberg, shows her crowned in radiating beams with the Christ child on her lap and heavy robes billowing around the moon beneath her. Dürer published the series himself, adding Latin verses by the poet Benedictus Chelidonius, deliberately placing a German craftsman's woodcuts inside the literary tradition of Renaissance humanism.

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Object ID
47559
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
Woodcut
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Medium” · copied as is
Department
European Art
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Department” · copied as is
Credit Line
Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1926
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Credit” · copied as is
Date
1510 (1511)
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · copied as is
Begin Year
1510
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
End Year
1510
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field

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