id: 129929 accession number: 1952.36 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.36 updated: 2025-02-27 12:06:38.372000 St. John the Evangelist on the Isle of Patmos, 1475–80. Martin Schongauer (German, c. 1450–1491). Engraving; image: 16 x 11.3 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/16 in.); sheet: 16 x 11.3 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1952.36 title: St. John the Evangelist on the Isle of Patmos title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1475–80 creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1485 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany technique: engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Lehrs V.264.60 --- CREATORS * Martin Schongauer (German, c. 1450–1491) - artist Martin Schongauer (ca. 1450-53, Colmar - 2 February 1491, Breisach) was one of the most skilled and influential graphic artists of Europe in the last quarter of the 15h century. Trained both as an engraver and as a painter, Schongauer started his apprenticeship under his father Caspar Schongauer, a goldsmith from Augsburg. In 1465, he matriculated at the University of Leipzig. After one year, he left his studies, and came back to Colmar. There, he was trained under the painter Caspar Isenmann, between 1466 and 1469. Schongauer later traveled down to the Rhine, Cologne, Burgundy, the Netherlands, and he likely visited Spain. In 1489, he became a citizen of Breisach, where he died probably of the plague in 1491. Only a few of Schongauer's paintings survive. Among these is the Madonna in the Rose Garden for the Church of Saint Martin in Colmar (1473), which betrays Schongauer's admiration for the works by the Netherlandish painter Roger Van der Weyden. The bulk of Schongauer's engravings is more conspicuous: 116 prints, none of them dated, but all marked by his monogram M+S. Characterized by exquisite cross-hatching and impeccable craftsmanship, Schongauer's engravings were widely imitated by the German printmakers Ishrael van Meckenem and Albrecht Durer, as well as by Italian artists, such as Cristoforo Robetta and Nicoletto da Modena. --- measurements: Image: 16 x 11.3 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/16 in.); Sheet: 16 x 11.3 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/16 in.) state of the work: I/I edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary opening date: 1971-02-19T05:00:00 Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971). title: Eight Masters of the Print opening date: 1980-10-14T04:00:00 Eight Masters of the Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 14, 1980-January 18, 1981). title: Sacred and Profane in Late Gothic Prints opening date: 1987-06-02T04:00:00 Sacred and Profane in Late Gothic Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 2-August 2, 1987). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Richards, Louise. "Engravings by Martin Schongauer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 3 (March 1955): 43-45. page number: Mentioned: p. 43 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142023 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.36/1952.36_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.36/1952.36_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.36/1952.36_full.tif