The Babylonian Whore, from The Apocalypse. Facsimile
n.d.
Medium
Facsimile
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 1/4 × 12 15/16 in. (43.8 × 32.9 cm)
Classification
Prints-Facsimiles
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1923
Accession Number
23.59.50
Tags
Art Historical Context
Albrecht Dürer’s “The Babylonian Whore” belongs to his groundbreaking “Apocalypse” series, a set of woodcuts that brought the dramatic visions of the Book of Revelation to a wide European audience at the close of the fifteenth century. Created during the Northern Renaissance, the series showcased Dürer’s mastery of printmaking, where intricate line work and expressive figures conveyed intense emotion and narrative detail on a scale rarely seen before in the medium. This facsimile preserves the original composition’s powerful imagery of the Whore of Babylon, surrounded by figures that evoke th...
About the Artist
Albrecht Dürer · 1471–1528
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) stands as the preeminent figure of the Northern Renaissance and arguably the most influential artist in the history of printmaking. Born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471, and dying in the same city on April 6, 1528, Dürer revolutionized the status of the artist in Northern Europe, transforming printmaking from a commercial craft into an independent fine art and establishing ...