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Life of the Virgin: Glorification of the Virgin and Child by Saints and Angels by Albrecht Durer
Life of the Virgin: Glorification of the Virgin and Child by Saints and Angels
Albrecht Durer
Life of the Virgin: Glorification of the Virgin and Child by Saints and Angels
Albrecht Durer
1471 - 1528 (biography)The "Life of the Virgin" is a series of nineteen woodcuts plus a frontispiece, published in book form. It was begun by Albrecht Dürer just after 1500 and only completed 1510-1511. Though this image is the twentieth and final image in the series it was one of the earliest done for the series and is the only image where the AD monogram is not placed on a tablet.
The virgin and child are surrounded by: St. Jerome, St. Paul, St. Augustine, St Anthony, John the Baptist, St. Joseph, and Ste. Catherine.
It was begun while he was still halfway through working on his 'Great Passion' series. Only sixteen of the plates were complete by 1504, with final completion further delayed by the artist's second stay in Venice from 1504 to 1505.
This impression is from the second state, with the letterpress beneath the image: "Impressum Nurnberge per Albertum Durer pictorum. Anno christiano Millesimo quningentesimo undecimo. / Heus tu insidiator ..... esse certissime scias."