Christ on the Cross with Pope Pius II
c. 1475
German 15th Century
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 36 x 26 cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.476
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 372, State n
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 51, repro.
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 16, repro.
2012
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 5, repro. fig. 13.
Bibliography
1926
Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.
1965
Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 51.
Inscriptions
in typographic text on sheet, at left: Dye syben tag zeit vnser frawen... (the seven hours of our lady) [followed by eight six-line stanzas and one stanza from a song to the Virgin Mary by the so-called Monk of Salzburg]
[see Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, pp. 98-101.]
Watermarks
bull's head with eyes and a ring
Wikidata ID
Q64952911