Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb

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Albecht Dürer’s Apocalypse had the most spellbinding illustrations of any book published in the 1400s. One of sixteen images, this illustrated the thirteenth chapter of The Book of Revelation: … I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns…. Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It… made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast…. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people…. The seed for this remarkable image was a small woodcut in a Bible published by his godfather, Anton Koberger, when Dürer was twelve years old. Germany, Europe

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Dated
1498
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Department
European Art
Credit
Bequest of Herschel V. Jones
Medium
Woodcut

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In 1498, a twenty-six-year-old Albrecht Dürer published a book that changed printmaking forever. This woodcut shows a seven-headed, crowned beast coiling through the scene while kneeling crowds worship below and fire rains from heaven at the command of a second, lamb-horned creature. Dürer carved every serpentine scale and billowing cloud with such precision that he lifted the woodcut from cheap popular print to serious high art. This single sheet helped set the standard for European printmaking for generations to come.

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Object ID
49918
Object Type
Prints
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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
Bequest of Herschel V. Jones
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Credit” · copied as is
Date
1498
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art field “Dated” · copied as is
Begin Year
1498
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End Year
1498
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