Albrecht Dürer, 1516 - Virgin and Child - fine art print

Original artwork description from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© Copyright - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

At first glance, this small painting seems to represent simply the Virgin’s loving attention to her Child, wriggling on her lap. Certain details, however, subtly foreshadow Christ’s sacrifice: Mary’s red dress and cloak signal the color of Christ’s Passion, and her right hand, which is gripping the cloth taut beneath the Child, recalls the actions of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, who supported the weight of the dead Christ on a white burial shroud after the Deposition from the cross. The paint surface is unfortunately severely abraded, but what little remains of its original appearance supports Dürer’s authorship.

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• Aluminium dibond print (metal): These are metal prints on aluminium dibond with an impressive depth. For the Direct Aluminium Dibond print, we print your artwork onto the surface of the white-primed aluminum composite. The white and bright sections of the artpiece shimmer with a silky gloss, however without any glare. Colors are luminous, the fine details are very clear.
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• Printed acrylic glass (with real glass coating): An acrylic glass print, which is sometimes referenced as a print on plexiglass, makes the original artwork into brilliant home decoration. Your own version of the artwork will be made with modern UV direct print technology. The great advantage of an acrylic glass fine art copy is that contrasts as well as artwork details become exposed thanks to the very subtle tonal gradation.
• Canvas: A canvas print, which shall not be mistaken with a canvas painting, is a digital replica printed from an industrial printing machine. Hanging a canvas print: A canvas print has the advantage of being relatively low in weight. That means, it is easy and straightforward to hang up your Canvas print without any wall-mounts. That is why, a canvas print is suited for all kinds of walls.

Article explanation

The painting called "Virgin and Child" was created by the painter Albrecht Dürer in 1516. The painting had the size 11 x 7 3/8 in (27,9 x 18,7 cm); set in panel 11 x 8 1/4 in (27,9 x 22,2 cm). Oil on spruce was used by the artist as the medium of the work of art. Nowadays, this piece of art is in the the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (licensed - public domain). : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917. In addition to this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Albrecht Dürer was a painter, whose style was mainly Northern Renaissance. The German artist lived for a total of 57 years and was born in 1471 and deceased in 1528 in Nuremberg.

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