ID: 700008920 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008920	Record Type: Movable Work
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Fall of Man (engraving (print); Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg); 1504; Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, Lorain ...; AMAM 67.33;)

Note: Dürer's magnificent engraving of The Fall of Man abounds with symbolic details that enrich the familiar biblical narrative. The artist was even more concerned, however, with using the figures of Adam and Eve as vehicles for demonstrating the ideal classical proportions of the human form. The enormously influential Fall of Man (Adam and Eve) is the only print to which Dürer signed his name in full, indicating the importance he placed on this work in his own oeuvre. The static, almost iconic grandeur of the image is the result of Dürer's preoccupation with conveying not merely the drama of the biblical narrative, but also the ideal proportions of the human form. Throughout his career Dürer was fascinated with ideal form in the human figure; his systematic study culminated in Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (1528), a theoretical treatise written towards the end of his life and published in the year of his death. 2 The nearly symmetrical frontal poses of Adam and Eve in The Fall of Man were carefully calculated to demonstrate idealized, canonical proportions of the nude to a Northern audience unfamiliar with classical norms of beauty. Both the proportions and the graceful contrapposto attitude of the figures were inspired by such famous Greek statues as the Apollo Belvedere and the Medici Venus.

Titles:

Fall of Man (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Adam and Eve (C,U,English,U,N)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: 1504

Creator Display:

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg) [preferred,VP]

printmaker Dürer, Albrecht (German printmaker and painter, 1471-1528) [500115493]

Locations:

Current: Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, Lorain county, Ohio, United States) [500303823] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: AMAM 67.33

Credit Line: Gift of the Max Kade Foundation, 1967

Display Materials: engraving

	laid paper [300014184]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 7 9/16 in. (24.9 x 19.2 cm)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Adam and Eve in the Garden of Paradise [901000428]
	.....((Legend of Adam and Eve, Old Testament narratives, Old Testament iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Fall of Man [901001323]
	.....((Legend of Adam and Eve, Old Testament narratives, Old Testament iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: Provenance Collection H. H. Benedict, New York (Lugt 2936) Collection Levy Collection D. Keppeler, New York Collection McDonald Collection Max Kade (1882-1967) (Lugt 1561) Gift of the Max Kade Foundation, 1967 Exhibitions Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Graphische Sammlung, 1963-64. Sammlung Max Kade. (Also shown at Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung.) Cat. no. 37. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969-70. Rembrandt's Biblical Etchings: Renaissance Precedents and Baroque Inventions. 14 October - 4 January. No cat. - See more at: http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/Durer_Fall.htm#sthash.B5LZjQZm.dpuf

Inscriptions: Inscribed and dated in plate, on cartellino at upper ; ALBERTUS/DVRER/NORICVS/FACIEBAT/1504 (Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg made [this], 1504)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Adam and Eve

Sources and Contributors:
Fall of Man	........ [VP]
	........ Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College [online] (2000-)
Adam and Eve	........ [VP]
	........ Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College [online] (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Meder. Dürer-Katalog Meder, no. 1

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College [online] (2000-)