id: 136172 accession number: 1959.99 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99 updated: 2023-01-11 00:49:41.435000 The Life of the Virgin: The Life of the Virgin, c. 1510–11. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.99 title: The Life of the Virgin title in original language: series: The Life of the Virgin series in original language: creation date: c. 1510–11 creation date earliest: 1510 creation date latest: 1511 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, early 16th Century technique: woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: 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-April 1, 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: Durer opening date: 1971-04-06T05:00:00 Durer. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 6-May 8, 1971). title: Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire opening date: 2014-06-22T00:00:00 Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Dürer, Albrecht. The Life of the Virgin. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 1; Plate I url: https://archive.org/details/AlbrechtDurer/page/n3 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” September 29, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0438 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 107 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n131 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 107 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n131 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 125 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n145 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99/1959.99_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99/1959.99_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.99/1959.99_full.tif