id:			136176
accession number:	1959.99.12
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.12
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:47.616000

The Life of the Virgin: The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1501–1503. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Woodcut; sheet: 29.8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.99.12

title:				The Adoration of the Magi
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series:				The Life of the Virgin
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creation date:			c. 1501–1503
creation date earliest:		1501
creation date latest:		1503
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Germany, early 16th Century
technique:	woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Meder 199 b

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CREATORS

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

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measurements: Sheet: 29.8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
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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:		Durer
	opening date:   1971-04-06T05:00:00
	<i>Durer</i>. 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
	<i>Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA 1996: Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints, February 20-May 5, 1996, no cat.', 'opening_date': '1996-02-20T00:00:00'}

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Dürer, Albrecht. <em>The Life of the Virgin</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 12; Plate XII
	url:		https://archive.org/details/AlbrechtDurer/page/n25

	Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 151, fig. 4
	url:		

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