The Nativity, 1504

Title

The Nativity

Artist

• Albrecht Dürer

Period Produced

• 16th century

Object Type

• art print

Material

• handmade paper

Technique

• copperplate engraving

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Datiert und monogrammiert auf der Tafel oben links: 1504 / AD

Work Catalogues

• Bartsch VII.31.2
• Meder 1932.70.2
• Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 1.114.40
• Hollstein German VII.6.2
• TIB 1001.002

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• Biblical portrayal
• historical narration
• depiction of a saint

Main Motif

• worship
• depiction of the Virgin
• Life of the Virgin
• Holy Family
• Mary
• Christ Child
• Joseph of Nazareth
• angel
• annunciation
• woman
• child
• man
• group of people
• family
• animal
• ruin
• well
• Bethlehem

Persons Shown

• Holy Family
• Mary
• Christ Child
• Joseph of Nazareth

Illustrated Passage

• Bibel, Neues Testament, Matthäus 1,18-25
• Bibel, Neues Testament, Lukas 2,8-14

Primary

• 73B13 Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)
• 73B132 care of the new-born Christ-child, e.g. swaddling
• 48C149 ruin of a building ~ architecture

Secondary

• 41A3911 well
• 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape