The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
The Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate
1504
Location: not on view
Description
The first three woodcuts of Dürer’s narrative (1959.99.2-4) portray the events leading up to the Virgin’s birth. According to an apocryphal text, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anna, had remained childless into old age. After Joachim’s offering at the temple was rejected for this reason, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the wilderness to announce that his wife would soon bear a child. At this news, the two tenderly embraced at the city’s gate.- Dürer, Albrecht. The Life of the Virgin. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959. Reproduced: p.4; Plate IV archive.orgMatino, Gabriele, Patricia Fortini Brown, Sophia D'Addio, and Vittore Carpaccio. Carpaccio in Venice: A Guide. 2020. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 136Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: p.252, fig. 1
- Dürer’s Women: Images of Devotion and Desire. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 28, 2014).CMA 1996: Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints, February 20-May 5, 1996, no cat.Durer. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 6-May 8, 1971).Albrecht Dürer - 500th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 28, 1971).
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Source URL:
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