Annunciatie

1501 - 1505 · Print

Can I see it?

Unknown

Where is “Annunciatie” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source: The museum

On the map Museum page

About the work

Museum text in Dutch

De engel Gabriël verschijnt aan Maria, terwijl zij zit te lezen aan een lezenaar in een hoog vertrek. Op de achtergrond God in de hemel; boven Maria's hoofd de Heilige Geest in de gedaante van een duif. Deze prent is onderdeel van een serie van 20 prenten, bestaand uit een titelprent en 19 prenten met scènes uit het leven van Maria.

Rijksmuseum

Details

Accession number: RP-P-H-Z-244

What it shows

The Annunciation: Mary sitting

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 16th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

In the life of Albrecht Dürer

The whole life

1500
Jacopo de' Barbari and the secret of proportion
The Venetian Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, came to Nuremberg, and Dürer said he learned much from him about perspective, anatomy and proportion. Feeling that de' Barbari would not explain everything he knew, Dürer began studies of his own that became a lifelong preoccupation.
1501–1502
In the circle of Nuremberg's humanists
Through his lifelong friend Willibald Pirckheimer, Dürer entered the circle of Nuremberg's humanists. He engraved illustrations for Conrad Celtis's editions of Hrotsvitha (1501) and of his Four Books of Love (1502), and decorated 14 books in Pirckheimer's library with drawings.
1502
Death of his father
Albrecht Dürer the Elder died, and his son took on the care of his mother and his two younger brothers, Endres and Hans.
1504 · Workplace
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
1505
Second journey to Italy
Dürer set off for Italy again — perhaps not only to earn money but also to stop Marcantonio Raimondi from copying his prints. His stay in Venice is known from ten surviving letters to Pirckheimer.
1505–1507
Friendship with Giovanni Bellini
Dürer considered Giovanni Bellini “the best in painting”, the only Venetian master with whom he became friends. The Madonna of the Siskin may have been painted at Bellini's request.