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About the artwork
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Once interpreted as Lucas van Leyden’s self-portrait, this print is sometimes entitled Memento Mori (Remember you must die). The well-dressed, anonymous figure considers his mortality while pointing at the human skull (which may or may not be real) tucked under his cloak. This image predates by eighty years Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with his famous speech on poor Yorick’s fate, traditionally delivered with the jester’s actual skull in hand. If the round Dürer Crucifixion (1956.951) was printed from Emperor Maximilian’s hatpin, which was also made in 1519, it would have resembled the tiny face stylishly worn on the cap of this unidentified man.
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| Medium | paper (fiber product) |
| Dimensions | 14 × 18 Cm |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
Timeline
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Fri
30
Jan
exhibition
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life, " April 30-July 10, 2011, pp. 23-24, fig. 16 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life," April 30-July 10, 2011, pp. 23-24, fig. 16 (ill.).
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30
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note
Samuel Otter, Melville's Anatomies
Samuel Otter, Melville's Anatomies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 95-96, 103-06, fig. 11 (ill.).
Tue
30
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Jan Piet Filedt Kok, edited by Ger Luijten, The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: 1450-1700. Lucas van Leyden
Jan Piet Filedt Kok, edited by Ger Luijten, The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: 1450-1700. Lucas van Leyden (Roosendaal: Koninklijke van Poll; Amsterdam: Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 1996), pp. 156.
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30
Jan
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Ellen S. Jacobowitz and Stephanie Loeb Stepanek, The Prints of Lucas van Leyden & His Contemporaries
Ellen S. Jacobowitz and Stephanie Loeb Stepanek, The Prints of Lucas van Leyden & His Contemporaries (Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1983), pp. 197-198, cat. 73 (ill.).
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30
Jan
exhibition
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Lucas van Leyden & His Contemporaries, ” June 5-August 14, 1983; also traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 14-November 20, 1983.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Lucas van Leyden & His Contemporaries,” June 5-August 14, 1983; also traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 14-November 20, 1983.
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