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The Fall and Redemption of Man: The Nativity

c. 1515

Albrecht Altdorfer

(German, c. 1480–1538)
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Culture
Germany
Medium
woodcut
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1932.330.9
Catalogue raisonné
Hollstein 40-9 ; Bartsch VIII.74.9
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Not on view
Print
A vertically oriented print in dense black-inked lines depicts people with light skin tones in a ruined building. On the left, Mary kneels with joined hands beside the infant Christ in a basket, surrounded by tiny winged cherubs. Joseph, a bearded man, leans over the scene from the right. A large six-pointed star shines in the upper right. Through an archway on the left, a figure watches. A monogrammed plaque hangs in the upper left.

The Fall and Redemption of Man: The Nativity

c. 1515

Albrecht Altdorfer

(German, c. 1480–1538)
Germany

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