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accession number:	2015.20
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The Passion: Christ in Limbo, c. 1480. Martin Schongauer (German, c.1450–1491). Engraving; sheet: 16.5 x 11.7 cm (6 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2015.20

title:				The Passion: Christ in Limbo
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creation date:			c. 1480
creation date earliest:		1475
creation date latest:		1485
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creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture:	Germany, 15th Century
technique:	engraving
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Engraving
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: L 29; TIB 8 comm., pt. 1, 0801.029

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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 <em>Madonna in the Rose Garden</em> 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.
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measurements: Sheet: 16.5 x 11.7 cm (6 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.)
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	description:	laid paper
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	inscription:	Verso in graphite: c 22202, c 17101, B.G., L.29
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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 73
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