The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Joachim and the Angel
c. 1504
Location: not on view
Description
The first three woodcuts of Dürer’s narrative (1959.99.2-4) portray the events leading up to the Virgin’s birth. According to an apocryphal text, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, had remained childless into old age. After Joachim’s offering at the temple was rejected for this reason, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the wilderness to announce that his wife would soon bear a child. At this news, the two tenderly embraced at the city’s gate.- Dürer, Albrecht. The Life of the Virgin. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959. Reproduced: p. 3; Plate III archive.org
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.99.3