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Saint Christopher
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In 1511 Dürer designed the almost square woodcut “Saint Christopher.” The spike standing up to the knees in the water crosses the river, supported by its staff. Seriously and concentrating, he lowers his gaze, sticks to his belt before exertion, while the little Savior weighs on his shoulders. The boy is accentuated by a radiant nimbus and performs the blessing gesture above the head of the giant. In the strong headwind, the capes of the protagonists are blowing. The background shows a hilly landscape and a hermit with lantern on the river bank. In the course of Christophorus worship, the representations were very popular, so that not only Dürer implemented the motif several times (e.g. I C 37 and I C 38 of the State Library Bamberg), but his versions were also copied many times.
Title: Saint Christopher
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In 1511 Dürer designed the almost square woodcut “Saint Christopher.
” The spike standing up to the knees in the water crosses the river, supported by its staff.
Seriously and concentrating, he lowers his gaze, sticks to his belt before exertion, while the little Savior weighs on his shoulders.
The boy is accentuated by a radiant nimbus and performs the blessing gesture above the head of the giant.
In the strong headwind, the capes of the protagonists are blowing.
The background shows a hilly landscape and a hermit with lantern on the river bank.
In the course of Christophorus worship, the representations were very popular, so that not only Dürer implemented the motif several times (e.
g.
I C 37 and I C 38 of the State Library Bamberg), but his versions were also copied many times.
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