About this artwork
Meditations on mortality and Germany’s art historical past come together in Quaglio’s evocative view of Johannisfriedhof, the graveyard that served the imperial city of Nuremberg in the 16th century. Albrecht Dürer, a major German Romantic idol, was the most famous artist interred there. The monumental crucifixion group was designed by the Nuremberg sculptor Adam Kraft in 1506/08 and may already have been relocated to the medieval hospital, the Heilig-Geist-Spital, at the time this print was made.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Domenico Quaglio
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Title
- Saint John's Cemetery with a View of the City of Nuremberg, from Collection of Memorable Medieval Buildings in Germany
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1819
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Medium
- Lithograph in black, with tint stone in light brown, on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image/text: 38.5 × 41.6 cm (15 3/16 × 16 7/16 in.); Sheet: 48.6 × 55.5 cm (19 3/16 × 21 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1994.253
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/131408/manifest.json
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