The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives

Jörg Breu the Elder, The Virgin and Child with Saint Conrad and Saint Pelagius, 1504, hand-colored woodcut on laid paper, Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz, 2012.143.1

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Printed with black lines on light tan paper, a balding, bearded, muscular man kneels next to a small lion in a rocky landscape in this vertical engraving. The man’s beard comes down beyond his chest, and his hair is long behind his receding hairline. His torso is bare while his lower body is wrapped in a cloth that falls in deep folds. He faces our left, gazing at a broken tree trunk with a cluster of weeds growing near its roots. A small crucifix is thrust into the broken trunk. He holds a rock in his outstretched right hand, on our left. The lion crouches next to him with his eyebrows gathered low as he looks off to our left. Beyond them, a landscape rises along either side of a path leading toward a church in the distance. On the left side are the cracked walls of a building with plants growing out the top. On the right is the craggy face of a cliff with tall, slender trees growing on its top slope. The path darkens as it passes the cliff and reaches the church to our left of center. In the far distance to the right of the cliff is a castle-like structure with square towers. Deep shadows around the man and lion and along the path are created with areas of densely spaced, black hatched lines, and unmarked areas create bright highlights. The artist signed the work with monogram made of a capital D tucked between the legs of an uppercase A.

Albrecht Dürer, Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness, c. 1496, engraving on laid paper, Joan and David Maxwell Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and The Ahmanson Foundation, 2011.22.1

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Albrecht Dürer, Georg Mack the Elder, Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1508 and 1580s, engraving hand-colored with watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold and silver, on laid paper mounted to a piece of parchment decorated with floral borders, Purchased as an Anonymous Gift, 2013.108.1

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Daniel Hopfer, Hieronymus Hopfer, Emperor Charles V, 1520 (1521?), etching (iron) with open biting and unique contemporary hand-coloring in green, red, yellow, pink and brown, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann, 2011.102.1

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Urs Graf I, Standard-Bearer for the Canton of Bern, 1521, white-line woodcut on laid paper, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 2012.14.1

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Hans Lützelburger, Master NH, Battle of Naked Men and Peasants, 1522, woodcut on laid paper, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund, 2017.21.1

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Erhard Schön, Hans Guldenmund, Army Train and Death, c. 1532, woodcut from four blocks, on four sheets, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund, 2017.16.1

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Lucas van Doetechum, Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Hans Vredeman de Vries, Hieronymus Cock, Perspective View of a Street, 1560, etching with engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2015.64.2

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Pieter van der Heyden, Hieronymus Cock, Shrove Tuesday, 1567, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Hope and Julian Edison, 2019.114.7

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Jan Sadeler I, Joos van Winghe, A Pleasure House, 1588, engraving on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2013.11.1

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Hendrick Goltzius, Raphael, The Triumph of Galatea, 1592, engraving on laid paper, The Ahmanson Foundation, 2015.9.1

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Hendrick Goltzius, Venus and Cupid, 1596, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.55

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Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Lucas van Doetechum, Cornelis Floris II, Hieronymus Cock, Grotesque with Strapwork in the Form of a Cartouche, 1557, etching with engraving on laid paper, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund, 2020.130.2

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