Christ on the Cross, Albrecht Dürer

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Albrecht Dürer, Christ on the Cross
Albrecht Dürer, Christ on the Cross
Albrecht Dürer
Christ on the Cross
1511
Albrecht Dürer
1471–1528
Christ on the Cross, 1511
Where object was made: Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany)
Material/technique: engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 117 x 75 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 4 5/8 x 2 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Murphy
Accession number: 1996.0015
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Giorgio Vasari and Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy," Sep-2012, Sally Cornelison and Susan Earle Dürer produced his fifteen-print Engraved Passion series between 1508 and 1512. The dimensions of the Engraved Passion’s prints are slightly smaller than those of the contemporary Small Passion’s woodcuts. In this image Dürer reduced the story of the Crucifixion to its essentials: the Virgin Mary on the left and St. John the Evangelist on the right flank the dead Christ on the cross. Further images of a woman and a soldier appear behind Mary and John, and the end of Christ’s loincloth flutters in the wind behind the cross. Although Dürer’s prints influenced Italian painters like Raphael and Vasari, the cross-Alpine artistic exchange was not unilateral, for the German artist did look to Italian models. Indeed, he derived the figure of St. John the Evangelist in this engraved Crucifixion and Christ’s pose in the Large Passion woodcut Christ Carrying the Cross from works by the Italian painter and printmaker Andrea Mantegna.

Exhibitions

Giorgio Vasari and Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy
Sally Cornelison, curator
Susan Earle, curator
2012
Dürer's Echo: Five Centuries of Influence
Stephen Goddard, curator
1999

Citations

Cornelison, Sally J.. "Giorgio Vasari and Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy: Themes and Further Observations.." In Register Vol. VIII, no. 3 Part 1 (2011): 92-117.

Earle, Susan et al., The Register, VIII, No. 3, Part 2 (Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2011): 208.