Scene from the Life of Christ

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein1506-1507

Details

Title: Scene from the Life of Christ
Creator: Hans Schäufelein the Elder
Date Created: 1506-1507
Set or Series Title: Speculum Passionis Domini Nostri Jhesu Christi
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. Bequest of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1953
Materials & Techniques: Woodcut
Keywords: Bible, Jesus, 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: From Part Two, Folio L of Ulrich Pinder’s Speculum passionis domini nostri Jhesu Christi, published in Nuremberg, 30 August 1507. This print is from a group of the small woodcut illustrations; other printmakers for this set were Hans Baldung and Hans Süss von Kulmbach; see also the full-page illustrations, DAC 1946.D1.318.1–1946.D1.318.19
Bibliography: See Schreyl, essay on the set (Schreyl 359-87), pp. 82-84
Associated People: Created by Hans Schäufelein the Elder (German, ca. 1482 - 1539/1540)
Accession Number: 1953.D1.123.15

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