File:Clevelandart 1959.99.1.jpg
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Summary
Albrecht Dürer: Life of the Virgin: Title Page
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| Title |
The Life of the Virgin: The Virgin on a Crescent |
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| Part of |
The Life of the Virgin  |
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| Series title |
The Life of the Virgin |
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| Object type |
woodcut print / print |
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| Genre |
religious art |
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| Description |
The frontispiece of the series is a modification of the devotional imagery Dürer used in his depictions of the Virgin and Child standing in a crescent moon. Here, he also incorporated the themes of the nursing Madonna and the Madonna of Humility, often shown seated. In doing so, Dürer fused the Virgin’s regal, motherly, and humble natures into one striking image. |
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| Date | 1510 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Woodcut | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
height: 29.2 cm (11.4 in) ; width: 21.9 cm (8.6 in) |
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Prints |
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| Accession number |
1959.99.1 |
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| Place of creation | Germany, early 16th Century | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Dudley P. Allen Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Licensing
 
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 19:48, 21 January 2019 | | 2,891 × 3,400 (6.73 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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