GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This woodcut is part of a larger series of Christian prints by Albrecht Dürer, The Life of the Virgin, which represents key points in Mary’s life and emphasizes the role she played as intercessor between the human and the divine. Here Mary and Joseph present the infant Jesus in a temple, following Jewish tradition for the firstborn son. Two birds are to be sacrificed for the ritual purification of the mother. In the composition, the crowded spectacle of the lower half of the print is almost overshadowed by the overwhelming architecture of the temple. With this, Dürer reveals his skill with one-point perspective, an important artistic innovation of the Italian Renaissance where lines converge to a single point on the horizon, which creates a convincing illusion of space.
Excerpt from
Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy, 2015
NOTES
Series- The Life of the Virgin
Added Saints and Monsters label copy to TMS as a text entry.
General Description: Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy (2001.28) for Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, March 2015
Changed the object name from Print to Woodcut. Changed the medium from Woodcut to ink on paper.
Add information to existing TMS label copy by Wuellner. The texts were written for "With Black Lines Only: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer" (December 21, 2003- March 28, 2004).
Deleted the text in the exhibition history field for "With Black Lines Only" because it was duplicated by an exhibition record already entered in TMS and related to this object.
DMA Friends Activity- puzzle brochures by Danielle Shulz and Tanya Miller for the Saints and Monsters exhibition- Fall 2015
HOW TO FIND THIS?
Alternate title- Presentation of Christ
Provenance:
Until 2001: Rozwell Sam Adams, Dallas, TX
From 2001: Dallas Museum of Art, bequest from the above
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location: Jerusalem (Israel): TGN: 7001371
Place of origin: Nuremberg (Germany): TGN: 7004334
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Virgin mary
Jesus
Joseph
Subject terms
mother
father
temple
architectural drawings
altar
altar cloth
columns
colonnade
infant
steps
sacrifice
Judaism
Christianity
priest
cages
birdcages
birds
interior spaces
rituals
figures
robes
drapery
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
AUDIO ASSETS
Josh Rose, Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Durer, gallery talk, June 17, 2015.
248141244: UMO
Connection made by confirming exhibition in TMS and Piction ID correct.
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- Inside Albrecht Dürer's Studio-Woodcut~Watch this demonstration and explanation of the woodcut process created by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute for the exhibition, The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer (November 14, 2010- March 13, 2011).
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General Description
This woodcut is part of a larger series of Christian prints by Albrecht Dürer, The Life of the Virgin, which represents key points in Mary’s life and emphasizes the role she played as intercessor between the human and the divine. Here Mary and Joseph present the infant Jesus in a temple, following Jewish tradition for the firstborn son. Two birds are to be sacrificed for the ritual purification of the mother. In the composition, the crowded spectacle of the lower half of the print is almost overshadowed by the overwhelming architecture of the temple. With this, Dürer reveals his skill with one-point perspective, an important artistic innovation of the Italian Renaissance where lines converge to a single point on the horizon, which creates a convincing illusion of space.
Excerpt from
Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy, 2015
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Inside Albrecht Dürer's Studio-Woodcut~Watch this demonstration and explanation of the woodcut process created by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute for the exhibition, The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer (November 14, 2010- March 13, 2011).
Notes
Series- The Life of the Virgin
Added Saints and Monsters label copy to TMS as a text entry.
General Description: Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy (2001.28) for Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, March 2015
Changed the object name from Print to Woodcut. Changed the medium from Woodcut to ink on paper.
Add information to existing TMS label copy by Wuellner. The texts were written for "With Black Lines Only: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer" (December 21, 2003- March 28, 2004).
Deleted the text in the exhibition history field for "With Black Lines Only" because it was duplicated by an exhibition record already entered in TMS and related to this object.
DMA Friends Activity- puzzle brochures by Danielle Shulz and Tanya Miller for the Saints and Monsters exhibition- Fall 2015
HOW TO FIND THIS?
Alternate title- Presentation of Christ
Provenance:
Until 2001: Rozwell Sam Adams, Dallas, TX
From 2001: Dallas Museum of Art, bequest from the above
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location: Jerusalem (Israel): TGN: 7001371
Place of origin: Nuremberg (Germany): TGN: 7004334
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Virgin mary
Jesus
Joseph
Subject terms
mother
father
temple
architectural drawings
altar
altar cloth
columns
colonnade
infant
steps
sacrifice
Judaism
Christianity
priest
cages
birdcages
birds
interior spaces
rituals
figures
robes
drapery
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
AUDIO ASSETS
Josh Rose, Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Durer, gallery talk, June 17, 2015.
248141244: UMO
Connection made by confirming exhibition in TMS and Piction ID correct.
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