La muerte y la doncella

1503 · Print

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Lázaro Galdiano Museum

Madrid, Spain

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

In this state since: Sep 27, 2026
Source: The museum

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About the work

Museum text in Spanish

La estampa que representa un escudo de armas con calavera está relacionada con el tema del amor y la muerte, asunto tratado por Durero en El galán y la dama

Lázaro Galdiano Museum

Details

What it shows

Escudo de armas

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 16th century

Sources

Lázaro Galdiano Museum
Image: Lázaro Galdiano Museum — In Copyright

In the life of Albrecht Dürer

The whole life

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.
1505–1507
To Bologna for the secrets of perspective
Dürer travelled to the university city of Bologna, hoping to learn the secrets of geometric perspective from its scholars. He then meant to visit Mantegna in Padua but received news of his death, which he greatly regretted afterwards.