book; print; book-illustration

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book; print; book-illustration

Object Type: book; print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1851,0802.2.1-26
Title: Object: Antithesis figurata vitae Christi et Antichristi (Passional Christi and Antichristi)
Description: 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
Producer name: Print made by: Lucas Cranach the Elder; Printed by: Johann Grunenberg
School/style
Production date: 1521
Production place: Printed in: Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt)
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 117 millimetres (woodcut, average); Width: 94 millimetres (woodcut, average)
Curator's comments: Lit: G. Bartrum, German Renaissance Prints, BM exh.cat. 1995, no. 181 (for earlier bibliography)
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (66.IV); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (II.324.3) (as Hans Cranach); Bartrum 1995 / German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550 (181)
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
Subjects: religion/belief; catholicism
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1851,0802.2.1-26

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