Sterfbed van Maria

1510 · Print

May one see it?

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

In the museum's own words — in Dutch

Maria ligt in een hemelbed, omringd door de apostelen. Een van hen drukt haar een kaars in de handen. 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

Particulars

Accession number: RP-P-OB-1426

What it shows

Dormition of Mary The apostles are gathered around her (John the Evangelist may be shown sleeping or dreaming)Canopy beds

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 16th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

Meanwhile, in the life of Albrecht Dürer

The whole life

1507–1528 · Workplace
Nuremberg
1509
Elected to Nuremberg's Greater Council
Dürer was elected a nominated member of Nuremberg's Greater Council; in that role he may have taken part in the city's artistic projects.
1509
Buys a large house in Nuremberg
Dürer bought a large house from the heirs of the astronomer Bernhard Walther; it housed his workshop, and his widow lived there after his death until 1539.
1511
Publishes the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin
Dürer published two woodcut series as books, the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin, with a second edition of the Apocalypse and the 37 woodcuts of the Little Passion. His post-Venetian woodcuts developed chiaroscuro modelling.
1512
Emperor Maximilian I becomes his chief patron
From 1512 Emperor Maximilian I was Dürer's chief patron. For him Dürer and his workshop produced the Triumphal Arch, a giant woodcut 295 × 357 cm printed from 192 blocks and modelled on the triumphal arches of ancient Rome.
3 January 1512
Nuremberg's privilege against forgeries
Nuremberg's city council granted Dürer a privilege for the sale of his prints, with penalties for anyone who forged them.