Death of the Virgin

Israhel van Meckenemca. 1480-1500

Details

Title: Death of the Virgin
Creator: Israhel van Meckenem the Younger after Martin Schongauer
Date Created: ca. 1480-1500
Set or Series Title: The Life of the Virgin (La Vie de la Vierge)
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1938
Materials & Techniques: Engraving
Keywords: Bible, death, mothers, New Testament, religions, religious art
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Three other known impressions in U.S. public collections
Bibliography: Bartsch 40 (vol. 6, p. 172); for the series, see Bartsch 30–41; L. ix.69.60; Hollstein 49; Alan Shestack, Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1967), cat. no. 199; David Landau and Peter Parshall, The Renaissance Print, 1470–1550 (New Haven: Yale, 1994), p. 53, plate 28.
Associated People: Created by Israhel van Meckenem the Younger (German, ca. 1440 - 1503), After Martin Schongauer (Alsatian (German), ca. 1430 - 1491)
Accession Number: 1938.D1.4

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