id:			136185
accession number:	1959.99.20
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.20
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The Life of the Virgin: The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints and Angels, c. 1500–1502. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.99.20

title:				The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints and Angels
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series:				The Life of the Virgin
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creation date:			c. 1500–1502
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1502
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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 207 a

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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:		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 (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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wall description:
Dürer depicted the scene of the Virgin’s death (1959.99.18) as an intimate one, with the apostles keeping vigil around her deathbed. Three days later they witnessed Mary’s bodily assumption into paradise where she was crowned the Queen of Heaven (1959.99.19). The final print (1959.99.20), which some believe was conceived independently from the series because it falls outside of the typical narrative, shows the Virgin in a domestic setting surrounded by several saints, angels, and putti that celebrate her life-an especially fitting way to end the series.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Dürer, Albrecht. The <em>Life of the Virgin.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 20; Plate XX
	url:		https://archive.org/details/AlbrechtDurer/page/n41

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