The Large Passion: The Crucifixion
c. 1497–1500
- Medium
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- 38.9 × 28.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-197308
Dürer made seven of the twelve woodcuts for The Large Passion between 1497 and 1500 and then produced four additional woodcuts in 1510. The following year he published the series in book form with a frontispiece and Latin verses composed by Benedict Schwalbe. The Nuremberg monk and poet's text was printed on the back of the sheets. At the same time, Dürer printed a second edition of The Apocalypse and the first edition of The Life of the Virgin. The scenes of The Large Passion executed between 1497 and 1500 retain certain Gothic conventions: a wealth of detail; two-dimensional, awkward figure…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Ralph King, 1926.118
Registry history
- c. 1497–1500 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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