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The first three woodcuts of Dürer’s narrative (1959.99.2-4) portray the events leading up to the Virgin’s birth. According to an apocryphal text, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, had remained childless into old age. After Joachim’s offering at the temple was rejected for this reason, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the wilderness to announce that his wife would soon bear a child. At this news, the two tenderly embraced at the city’s gate.
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136184
label
Joachim's Offering Rejected by the High Priest
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print
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136184
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print
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Joachim's Offering Rejected by the High Priest
description
The first three woodcuts of Dürer’s narrative (1959.99.2-4) portray the events leading up to the Virgin’s birth. According to an apocryphal text, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, had remained childless into old age. After Joachim’s offering at the temple was rejected for this reason, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the wilderness to announce that his wife would soon bear a child. At this news, the two tenderly embraced at the city’s gate.
date
c. 1504–1505
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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1
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Germany, early 16th Century
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1959.99.2
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tec
woodcut
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The Life of the Virgin: Joachim's Offering Rejected by the High Priest, c. 1504–1505. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Woodcut. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1959.99.2
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The Life of the Virgin
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PR - Woodcut
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1959.100
citations
citation
Dürer, Albrecht. <em>The Life of the Virgin</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
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Reproduced: p. 2; Plate II
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Meder 189
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 06:56:46.292000
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136184
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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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photo
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