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Summary

Albrecht Dürer: The Whore of Babylon

Artist



Alternative names	Albrecht Dürer
Description	German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death	21 May 1471	6 April 1528
Location of birth/death	Nuremberg	Nuremberg
Work period	1484 –1528
Work location	Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
Authority file	: Q5580 VIAF: 54146999 ISNI: 0000000120961368 ULAN: 500115493 LCCN: n79118011 NLA: 35051029 WorldCat

Title

German:

Die babylonische Hure

The Whore of Babylon

Series title

Apocalypse

Object type

print

Genre

religious art

Description

From the Latin edition of 1511.
The Revelation of St John: 14. The Whore of Baylon. "This image is one of a series of woodblocks made by the German artist Albrecht Dürer in the late fifteenth century during the height of the so-called "war on witches" conducted by the Christian Church against the people of Europe (see chapter 1). In this scene, the woman or whore of Babylon rides a seven-headed dragon, leaving a trail of destruction behind her, including (on the right) a riverside city in flames." [1]

Depicted people

Whore of Babylon

Date

between circa 1496 and circa 1498

Medium

woodcut print on paper mounted on linen

Dimensions

height: 392 mm (15.43 in); width: 280 mm (11.02 in)

Collection

Private collection

Accession number

-

Place of creation

Nuremberg

Notes

Bartsch 73; Meder, Hollstein 177

References

Authority file

: Q18338545
GND: 1069960179

Source/Photographer

1. http://www.kunstunterricht.de/bildtafel/duerer/Apokalypse/B16Durer.jpg
2. Sotheby's, London, 19 September 2012, lot 1

Other versions

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part of the series: Apocalypse

Licensing

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	20:31, 2 December 2005	1,024 × 1,536 (297 KB)	Mattes	new