The Resurrection
1510
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer spent his life in Nuremberg, a busy German city where artists traded prints like currency.
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Resurrection is a 1510 by Albrecht Dürer, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This woodcut shows Christ rising from an open tomb while four soldiers sleep around him. The soldiers wear heavy armor and hold spears. Christ stands tall with a muscular body and a flag in one hand. Dürer carved this scene before adding text on the back. He studied Italian art and used those ideas here. The contrast between the bright angel and the dark soldiers makes Christ look powerful. Look up Albrecht Dürer to see more prints like this.
This print belongs to a group of woodcuts showing the events of Christ’s Passion. The series was published with Latin verses on the back of each sheet, but this particular impression was printed as a “proof” before the text was added. Here, Albrecht Dürer showed Christ emerging from his tomb while the soldiers assigned to guard him sleep. Christ’s muscular, heroic body demonstrates Dürer’s awareness of visual models from the classical past and from Italy, a knowledge he helped to spread in the north through prints such as this. Here, the ideal body of Christ represents his resurrected state.
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Albrecht Dürer spent his life in Nuremberg, a busy German city where artists traded prints like currency.
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