Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Hermits St. Paul and St. Anthony
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-840f7214ff34
- Date
- 1504
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 67036
From LinkedCulture
Two ancient hermits share a simple meal in the wilderness, their long beards and rough robes rendered with extraordinary precision in a medium that should not be capable of such detail. Albrecht Dürer's 1504 woodcut shows Saints Paul and Anthony seated among dense forest trees, their twisted bare branches filling the frame with shadow built through fine hatching more typical of engraving than carved wood. This print matters because Dürer essentially rewrote the rules of what a woodcut could do.
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Germany, Europe Dimensions: 8 5/16 x 5 1/2 in. (21.11 x 13.97 cm) (image)
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- Credit line
- The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
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