Christ Carrying the Cross from a set of "The Passion" 1598 Design based on a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer German With subtlety and dexterity, this tapestry's weavers- who apparently used the monograms AR and ICM- borrowed, enlarged, reversed, and added color to Albrecht Dürer’s design for the woodcut of Christ carrying the Cross in his 1511 Small Passion series. This panel is part of a group of similarly sized scenes from the New Testament, woven across more than two decades, all closely based upon printed prototypes by Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Schäufelein, Martin Schongauer and Hans Wechtlin, as
Christ Carrying the Cross from a set of "The Passion" 1598 Design based on a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer German With subtlety and dexterity, this tapestry's weavers- who apparently used the monograms AR and ICM- borrowed, enlarged, reversed, and added color to Albrecht Dürer’s design for the woodcut of Christ carrying the Cross in his 1511 Small Passion series. This panel is part of a group of similarly sized scenes from the New Testament, woven across more than two decades, all closely based upon printed prototypes by Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Schäufelein, Martin Schongauer and Hans Wechtlin, as well as by Dürer. Together with other surviving tapestry panels now in the Museum Haus Löwenberg in Gengenbach and spread across private collections, these small, captioned Biblical scenes were probably made on speculation for sale to Protestant individuals and religious institutions in the Strasburg area around the turn of the seventeenth Christ Carrying the Cross from a set of "The Passion" 219371
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