id: 136174
accession number: 1959.99.10
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.10
updated: 2022-03-04 10:00:27.934000
The Life of the Virgin: The Nativity, c. 1502-1503. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.99.10
title: The Nativity
title in original language:
series: The Life of the Virgin
series in original language:
creation date: c. 1502-1503
creation date earliest: 1502
creation date latest: 1503
current location:
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright:
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culture: Germany, early 16th Century
technique: woodcut
department: Prints
collection: PR - Woodcut
type: Print
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Meder 197
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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
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: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection
opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00
Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* CMA 1996: Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints, February 20-May 5, 1996, no cat.
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PROVENANCE
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These eight woodcuts (1959.99.8-15) progress from Gabriel’s announcement to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, to the events of her early motherhood and beyond. This included the joy of sharing her pregnancy with her cousin Elizabeth, Jesus’s birth, and the subsequent arrival of the magi. After Jesus’s circumcision and presentation at the temple the Holy Family fled to Egypt to avoid Herod and stayed there for several years. The seemingly out of place last scene shows a glimpse of their daily life in Egypt as Joseph continues his carpentry and Mary spins wool. The Holy Family is surrounded by angels and helpful putti and are blessed by God the Father and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove overhead.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Dürer, Albrecht. The Life of the Virgin. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
page number: Reproduced: p. 10; Plate X
url: https://archive.org/details/AlbrechtDurer/page/n21
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IMAGES
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