GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In this episode of the Passion, Jesus is brought by a crowd to Pontius Pilate, prefect of Judea. Pilate is dressed in Oriental costume and stands atop a complex of stairs; to the left an armed crowd holds Jesus captive, and to the right a man lists his crimes. Pilate holds his hand up, calling for a pause to the discontent, and lobbies for Jesus’s innocence, as is described in the four gospel accounts of the event.
The hodgepodge of stairs, columns, arches, and doorways allows Albrecht Dürer to show off his mastery of two-point perspective, where lines recede to one of two vanishing points on the horizon line. It is used to construct the illusion of corners or intersections, as evident in the series of stairs. In the background, buildings with pitched roofs add a specifically Germanic reference to an otherwise classicizing architectural scheme.
Excerpt from
Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy, 2015.
NOTES
Series- The Small Passion, alternate name- The Small Woodcut Passion; 1509-1511, published 1511
Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy (1958.23) for Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, March 2015
Made a note in TMS that the display date used on the wall label in "Saints and Monsters" was 1511, not c. 1509. I did not change the date in the TMS record because it had been updated in April 2015, implying that the record was revised after the "Saints and Monsters" labels were completed.
Added Saints and Monsters label copy to TMS as a text entry.
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
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Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Nuremberg (Germany): TGN: 7004334
Place depicted: Jerusalem (Israel): TGN: 7001371
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Jesus
Subject terms
passion (document genre)
passion cycles
stairs
columns
arches
barrel vaults
spears
dog
figures
men
standing
prisoner
pitched roofs
architecture
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1958: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, anonymous gift [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
AUDIO ASSETS
Josh Rose, Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Durer, gallery talk, June 17, 2015.
UMO: 248141244
Connection made by confirming exhibition in TMS and Piction ID correct.
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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).
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General Description
In this episode of the Passion, Jesus is brought by a crowd to Pontius Pilate, prefect of Judea. Pilate is dressed in Oriental costume and stands atop a complex of stairs; to the left an armed crowd holds Jesus captive, and to the right a man lists his crimes. Pilate holds his hand up, calling for a pause to the discontent, and lobbies for Jesus’s innocence, as is described in the four gospel accounts of the event.
The hodgepodge of stairs, columns, arches, and doorways allows Albrecht Dürer to show off his mastery of two-point perspective, where lines recede to one of two vanishing points on the horizon line. It is used to construct the illusion of corners or intersections, as evident in the series of stairs. In the background, buildings with pitched roofs add a specifically Germanic reference to an otherwise classicizing architectural scheme.
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 Small Passion, alternate name- The Small Woodcut Passion; 1509-1511, published 1511
Laura Sevelis, DMA label copy (1958.23) for Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, March 2015
Made a note in TMS that the display date used on the wall label in "Saints and Monsters" was 1511, not c. 1509. I did not change the date in the TMS record because it had been updated in April 2015, implying that the record was revised after the "Saints and Monsters" labels were completed.
Added Saints and Monsters label copy to TMS as a text entry.
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?
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Nuremberg (Germany): TGN: 7004334
Place depicted: Jerusalem (Israel): TGN: 7001371
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Jesus
Subject terms
passion (document genre)
passion cycles
stairs
columns
arches
barrel vaults
spears
dog
figures
men
standing
prisoner
pitched roofs
architecture
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 1958: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, anonymous gift [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
AUDIO ASSETS
Josh Rose, Saints and Monsters: Prints by Albrecht Durer, gallery talk, June 17, 2015.
UMO: 248141244
Connection made by confirming exhibition in TMS and Piction ID correct.
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