id:			120675
accession number:	1941.42
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.42
updated:		2022-01-04 15:23:20.670000

The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene, 1501-4. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1941.42

title:				The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene
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creation date:			1501-4
creation date earliest:		1501
creation date latest:		1504
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creditline:			Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
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culture:	England, early 16th Century
technique:	woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Meder 237

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CREATORS

* Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary
	opening date:   1971-02-19T05:00:00
	<i>Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971).

	title:		Albrecht Dürer and His Influence
	opening date:   1991-01-16T05:00:00
	<i>Albrecht Dürer and His Influence</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-March 10, 1991).

	title:		Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire
	opening date:   2014-06-22T00:00:00
	<i>Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014).

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Dürer’s woodcut of Mary Magdalene represents a popular subject in German art and is considered a schlechtes Holzwerk, a simple woodcut intended for a general audience. According to a medieval book of saints’ lives known as the Golden Legend, Mary Magdalene spent the last 30 years of her life as a hermit outside of Marseilles, France, where she was miraculously borne aloft to heaven seven times a day to hear the choir of angels. Considered a fallen woman in her early life, Mary earned redemption through her complete devotion to Christ. During this period, Dürer was preoccupied with the laws of human proportion and the female figure. Mary Magdalene’s powerful legs and widened hips are comparable to the female nudes in Dürer’s The Dream of the Doctor and Adam and Eve.
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