Mount Calvary, ca. 1480 – 1490

Blatt: 223 x 170 mm

Physical Description: Engraving

Inventory Number: 54027

Object Number: 54027 D

Acquisition: Acquired in 1873

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Texts

About the Work

The Master PM executed only five engravings of which none have survived in more than three prints. They all focus primarily on figures, especially nudes. The study of the nude after nature was a “modern” artistic method. The bodies of Christ and the two thieves in this 'Mount Calvary' may go back to such studies. Perhaps the Master PM produced his engravings primarily as models for other pictorial artists.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Mount Calvary

Engraver

Monogrammist PM

Period Produced

15th century

Object Type

art print

Physical Description: Engraving

Material

Vergé paper

Technique

copperplate engraving

Geographic Reference

German

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Nicht bezeichnet

Captions Added Later: Verso bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): SrRoe [?]
Verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

P mit Blume

Work Catalogues

Lehrs VI.287.3 I (von II)
Passavant II.145.6

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Departement

Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: Public Domain

Acquisition: Acquired in 1873

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

Persons Shown

Iconclass

Primary

73D6 the crucifixion of Christ: Christ's death on the cross; Golgotha (Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38)
73D Passion of Christ
73D662 one or both of the malefactors on their crosses
11D Christ