File:Albrecht Dürer - The Virgin with Hairband on a Crescent Moon - 1958.116 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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The Virgin with Hairband on a Crescent Moon   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Title
The Virgin with Hairband on a Crescent Moon
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description

Dürer made four engravings of the Virgin and Child standing on a crescent moon. These devotional images link the Madonna with the pregnant Woman of the Apocalypse from the 12th book of Revelation. The verse says that "a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. . . " appeared in heaven, delivering a son to conquer Satan-a prefiguration of Christ.

In direct contrast with the crowned Virgin (1934.334), whose double aureole shines extravagantly around her figure, Dürer conceived the Madonna (1958.116) with simplicity and humility. In each he presents the dual roles of the Virgin as the Queen of Heaven and as the humble mother of Jesus.
Date 1508
date QS:P571,+1508-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
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Accession number
1958.116
Place of creation Germany, late 15th-early 16th century
Credit line Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.116

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