book;
print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1851,0802.2.1-26
- Title
- Object: Antithesis figurata vitae Christi et Antichristi (Passional Christi and Antichristi)
- Description
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A set of 26 woodcuts by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, juxtaposing episodes of the Life of Christ with those of the Antichrist, who is identified with the Pope, each woodcut accompanied by a title and short letterpress text by Philipp Melanchthon, here in Latin, the title page with a woodcut border; printed in Wittenberg, Johann Grünenberg (Rhau), 1521
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1521
- Dimensions
-
Height: 117 millimetres (woodcut, average)
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Width: 94 millimetres (woodcut, average)
- Curator's comments
- Lit: G. Bartrum, German Renaissance Prints, BM exh.cat. 1995, no. 181 (for earlier bibliography)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1995 Jun-Oct, BM, 'German Renaissance Prints, 1490-1550', no.181
1999/2000 Dec-Apr, London, BM, 'The Apocalypse', no.26
2017 Sept- Nov: London BM, G90a, Luther
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0802.2.1-26
