Madonna by the Wall / Albrecht Dürer
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- Accession Number
- 1958/1.95
- Title
- Madonna by the Wall
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- Nüremberg, 1471-1528
- Medium and Support
- engraving on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1514
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Bavaria (state)
- Mittelfranken (national district)
- Nuremberg (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Bavaria (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Mittelfranken (national district)
- Creation Place 5
- Nuremberg (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Northern Renaissance
- Inscription
- Signed and dated, on plate, middle r.:
- Dimensions
- 14.8 cm x 10 cm (5 13/16 in. x 3 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- intaglio print
- Physical Description
- A young woman, dressed in long robes with her veil drawn over her head, sits next to a wall holding an infant in her lap. She is turned slightly to her right and gazes sweetly upon the child who twists to face the viewer and holds an apple in his left hand. A stream meanders through the landscape of trees and city walls behind them.
- Subject Matter
- This exquisitely crafted print depicts the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ on her lap. While she gazes serenely upon her child, he turns to look intensely outward and holds up an apple, an allusion to Adam's fall from grace and Christ's role as the "second Adam" who would redeem humanity from sin. A quiet landscape that includes the walls and towers of Nuremberg stretches into the background.
- Primary Keywords
- apples
- christianity
- engraving (printing process)
- landscapes (representations)
- mothers
- nuremberg (inhabited place)
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- bavaria (state)
- descriptors
- europe (continent)
- food
- fruit
- geographic and political locations
- germany (nation)
- image-making processes and techniques
- intaglio printing processes
- materials
- materials by function
- mittelfranken (national district)
- objects we use
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- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by family relationship
- printing and printing processes and techniques
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 767 x 1111
- File Size
- 130 KB
- Record
- 1958/1.95
- Link to this Item
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"Madonna by the Wall; Albrecht Dürer." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1958-sl-1.95/1958_1.95.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.