Missal for Passau

1505

Hans Burgkmair I, Erhard Ratdolt (publisher)

Associated Names
Hans Burgkmair I

Artist, German, 1473 - 1531

Erhard Ratdolt

Publisher, German, 1447 - 1528

The image shows a depiction of Christ on the cross, with his full body prominently displayed. He is nailed to the wooden cross with his arms outstretched, his head slightly tilted to one side, crowned with thorns. His facial features are solemn, with a beard and mustache, and his hair appears to be of medium length, dark in color. Christ is draped with a white cloth around his waist. Flanking him on either side are two individuals; on the left, a figure standing, clothed in a long robe with a hood, hands clasped together, and a subtle expression on her face. She has a halo around her head. On the right, another figure is wearing a green garment layered with a red cloak, holding a book, with one hand raised, gazing upwards. This person also has a halo and features long, curly hair. Both of these individuals stand on green grass, with the blue sky and the cross as the background, and there is Latin text beneath them.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 4 woodcut illustrations; 2 full-page woodcuts by Burgkmair, the first printed in black, red and ochre blocks with additional hand-coloring in green, light-brown, beige, and brown on laid paper; the second fully colored by hand and printed on vellum;1 half-page Dominical Calendar, and 1 Agnus Dei roundel in red and black

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    page size: 34.8 × 22.8 cm (13 11/16 × 9 in.)
    book: 36.8 x 24.8 x 7 cm (14 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.130.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Daniella Laube, Cat. 5, no. 3); Collection of William J. Wyer, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 20.

Bibliography

1922

  • Schottenloher, Karl.Die liturgischen Druckwerke Erhard Ratdolts aus Augsburg, 1485-1522. Mainz, 1922: xvii.

1967

  • Adams, Herbert Mayow. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600. Cambridge U.P, 1967: L-1190.

Inscriptions

stamped on cover: Missale; in brown ink on foredge: missale / 74.a; inside upper cover bottom center in brown ink: VII 5134; lower cover upper center in graphite: Coll. Cpet.


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