The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 21, 2024
The Adoration of the Magi
c. 1501–1503
(German, 1471–1528)
Sheet: 29.8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.99.12
Catalogue raisonné: Meder 199 b
Location: not on view
Description
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.- Dürer, Albrecht. The Life of the Virgin. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959. Reproduced: p. 12; Plate XII archive.orgPeters, 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. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 151, fig. 4
- Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014).CMA 1996: Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints, February 20-May 5, 1996, no cat.Durer. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 6-May 8, 1971).Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971).
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