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Untitled, Plate 2 in the book Missale Salisburgensis (Mass Book for the Diocese of Salzburg) Vienna: Johann Winterburger, 1506 Woodcut illustrations by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Anonymous, German (active early 16th century)
This woodcut showing the crucified Christ between a mourning Virgin Mary and Saint John is a rare example of Lucas Cranach’s graphic work from his early career in Vienna, from 1500 to 1504, before he established himself in Wittenberg, Germany. Rendered in lively, gently curved hatch marks and hand colored, it exemplifies Cranach’s raw inventiveness as one of the fathers of Renaissance woodcut. Infused with pathos and tucked amid the pages of a missal (a book containing texts for Mass), this depiction of Christ’s wounded body would have made vivid for the reader the words on the page.
- Artist
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Title
- Untitled, Plate 2 in the book Missale Salisburgensis (Mass Book for the Diocese of Salzburg) Vienna: Johann Winterburger, 1506 Woodcut illustrations by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Anonymous, German (active early 16th century)
- Date
- 1506
- Object Type
- Medium
- Book with hand-colored and gilded woodcut on parchment
- Dimensions
- Case: 352 x 248 x 83 mm (13 7/8 x 9 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.); Object: 325 x 219 x 57 mm (12 13/16 x 8 5/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund, gift of the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council, Endowment Fund in Honor of Francesca Deering Howe and Thomas Carr Howe, Friends of Ian McKibbin White Endowment Fund, and Prints and Drawings Art Trust Fund.
- Accession Number
- 2016.5.1.2