De hoer van Babylon

1496 - 1497 · Print

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

Source: The museum's own collection data

On the map Museum page

About the work

In the museum's own words — in Dutch

Een mooi geklede en gekapte vrouw rijdt op een beest met zeven koppen en tien horens. Vanuit de hemel verschijnt een leger ruiters. Daarnaast twee engelen, van wie één een molensteen vast heeft. Rechts op de achtergrond is te zien hoe een stad in vlammen opgaat. Op versozijde Latijnse bijbeltekst in gotisch schrift in twee kolommen.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

Accession number: RP-P-OB-1391

What it shows

The scarlet woman, the whore of Babylon She is usually sitting on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns The fall of Babylon

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 15th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 8 days ago
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

Meanwhile, in the life of Albrecht Dürer

The whole life

c. 1492 – 1494
Basel: woodcuts for the printers
In Basel, a centre of printing, Dürer stayed with Georg Schongauer. A woodblock for the title page of the Letters of St Jerome (1492), signed with his name on the back, led to the works of the “Master of the Bergmann Press” being attributed to him; he may also have worked on the woodcuts for Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools.
July 1494
Marries Agnes Frey
Soon after returning to Nuremberg the 23-year-old Dürer married Agnes Frey, daughter of a prominent brass worker and amateur harpist; the match had been arranged in his absence, and marriage was required to open a workshop of his own. They had no children, and his letters suggest the marriage was not a happy one.
7 July 1494
Married: Agnes Dürer
1494–1495
First journey to Italy
Within three months of the wedding Dürer left alone for Italy, perhaps fleeing an outbreak of plague in Nuremberg. Crossing the Alps he made watercolour landscapes; in Venice he studied its art and judged Giovanni Bellini the best of its painters; Mantegna and Pollaiuolo left their mark on him.
1495
Opens his own workshop
Dürer opened his own workshop in Nuremberg, where over the next ten years he created much of his printmaking. His godfather, the publisher Anton Koberger, helped issue the first series; the city's crafts were governed by the Council rather than guilds, leaving him free to try new techniques and sell his own impressions.