The Resurrection (1510): Art, History and Details

The Resurrection (1510) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This print belongs to a group of woodcuts showing the events of Christ’s Passion. The series was published with Latin verses on the back of each sheet, but this particular impression was printed as a “proof” before the text was added. Here, Albrecht Dürer showed Christ emerging from his tomb while the soldiers assigned to guard him sleep. Christ’s muscular, heroic body demonstrates Dürer’s awareness of visual models from the classical past and from Italy, a knowledge he helped to spread in the north through prints such as this. Here, the ideal body of Christ represents his resurrected state.

Object facts

• Title: The Resurrection
• Date: 1510
• Creator attribution: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
• Culture: Germany
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut
• Dimensions: Sheet: 39.2 x 27.6 cm (15 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1926.122

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Ralph King

Further reading listed by the museum

• "The Print Club's Gift in Memory of Ralph King." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no.7 (July 1926): 159-162.

View the collection record

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