Description:
From the Life of the Virgin, after 1511
Label Text:
Dürer’s series of the "Life of the Virgin" consists of 20 woodcuts published between 1500-1511, within which the "Birth of the Virgin" appears as the fifth print. In these woodcuts, Dürer conveyed foreground architectural surfaces with a dashed series of lines and created spatial depth by increasingly tightening the spaces between hatches towards the background. When he wished for a darker tone, Dürer employed angled cross-hatching, and an even, curved hatching to delineate the three-dimensionality of the figures and drapery.
Written by Susan Anderson, Ph.D., interim Mellon Coordinator of College Programs, 2009
Tags:
architecture; narrative; religion; Christianity; figures; mother and child; angels Link to share this object record:
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