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Source Description
These eight woodcuts (1959.99.8-15) progress from Gabriel’s announcement to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, to the events of her early motherhood and beyond. This included the joy of sharing her pregnancy with her cousin Elizabeth, Jesus’s birth, and the subsequent arrival of the magi. After Jesus’s circumcision and presentation at the temple the Holy Family fled to Egypt to avoid Herod and stayed there for several years. The seemingly out of place last scene shows a glimpse of their daily life in Egypt as Joseph continues his carpentry and Mary spins wool. The Holy Family is surrounded by angels and helpful putti and are blessed by God the Father and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove overhead.
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Document identity
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136176
label
The Adoration of the Magi
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obj
dtoType
print
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1
Source metadata
id
136176
contentType
print
title
The Adoration of the Magi
description
These eight woodcuts (1959.99.8-15) progress from Gabriel’s announcement to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, to the events of her early motherhood and beyond. This included the joy of sharing her pregnancy with her cousin Elizabeth, Jesus’s birth, and the subsequent arrival of the magi. After Jesus’s circumcision and presentation at the temple the Holy Family fled to Egypt to avoid Herod and stayed there for several years. The seemingly out of place last scene shows a glimpse of their daily life in Egypt as Joseph continues his carpentry and Mary spins wool. The Holy Family is surrounded by angels and helpful putti and are blessed by God the Father and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove overhead.
date
c. 1501–1503
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q18338569
creators
11617
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Print
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 29.8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
cul
Germany, early 16th Century
accession
1959.99.12
Source extras
tec
woodcut
tombstone
The Life of the Virgin: The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1501–1503. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Woodcut; sheet: 29.8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1959.99.12
series
The Life of the Virgin
collection
PR - Woodcut
formerAccessionNumbers
1959.110
citations
citation
Dürer, Albrecht. <em>The Life of the Virgin</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 12; Plate XII
citation
Richards, Louise. "The Life of the Virgin." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>46, no. 10 (December 1959): 209.
page_number
Reproduced: cover; Mentioned: p. 208-209.
citation
Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 151, fig. 4
catalogueRaisonne
Meder 199 b
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 06:56:44.008000
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136176
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Prints
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PR - Woodcut
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woodcut
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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