Ascension of Christ — About This Work
Albrecht Dürer, c. 1515
About the Work
Christ rises above the small figures below, his blessing hand and cross-topped globe identifying him as the saviour. The contrast of scale makes the movement immediately legible even within this intimate drawing.
Dürer describes the Ascension through pen and brown ink. The drawn line carries both the figures and their separation in space, allowing the religious narrative to emerge without the tonal density of his engravings.
The story comes from the account of Christ being taken into heaven before the apostles. Here its extraordinary event is given a compact visual structure: the eye moves between the earthly witnesses and the ascending figure, following the action through the sheet.
The Work
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Title: Ascension of Christ
Date: c. 1515
Medium: Pen and brown ink
Recorded dimensions: 22.1 × 31 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1952.530
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 30 × 40 cm Classic Frame, portrait.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Gift of the Hanna Fund. 1952.530.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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