Annunciation to Mary
Annunciation to Mary
around 1503
from the Life of the Virgin. 1502–1505, 1510
Book edition with text by Benedictus Chelidonius, 1511.
Lit.: Anna Scherbaum: Albrecht Dürer's Life of the Virgin. Form,
Content, Function and Socio-Historical Context, Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 145–148.
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Annunciation to Mary
around 1503
Detail view. At the top, within a tondo, Judith with the head of Holofernes.
from the Life of the Virgin. 1502–1505, 1510
Book edition with text by Benedictus Chelidonius, 1511.
Lit.: Anna Scherbaum: Albrecht Dürer's Life of the Virgin. Form,
Content, Function and Socio-Historical Context, Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 145–148.
photo
Annunciation to Mary
around 1503
Detail. Under the stairs, a chained pig, interpreted by some scholars as a badger, fox, or wild boar.
from the Life of the Virgin. 1502–1505, 1510
Book edition with text by Benedictus Chelidonius, 1511.
Lit.: Anna Scherbaum: Albrecht Dürer's Life of the Virgin. Form,
Content, Function and Socio-Historical Context, Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 145–148.
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