Wölfflin chapter 4 Multiplicity and unity
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Albrecht Durer (b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
1510
Death of the Virgin
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
Woodcut 29.3*20.6 cm
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Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1639
Death of the Virgin
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Etching and drypoint 39.9*31.5 cm
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Schelte Adams Bolswert (b. 1586, Bolsward, d. 1659, Antwerp)
c. 1620
Assumption of the Virgin (after Rubens)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Engraving 61.7*42.4 cm
Rubens Assumption of the Virgin 1620 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
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Titian (b. 1490, Pieve di Cadore, d. 1576, Venice)
1516-18
Assumption of the Virgin
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
Oil on canvas 690*360 cm
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Paul Pontius (1603-1658)
1632
Jesus Stumbling Beneath the Cross (after Rubens)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Engraving 60.3*45.5 cm
Pontius engraved Rubens' sketch of The Road to Calvary c. 1632, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California.
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerp)
1634
The Road to Calvary
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Oil on canvas 569*355 cm
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Raphael (b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Rome)
1517
Christ Falls on the Way to Calvary
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Oil on panel transferred to canvas 318*229 cm
The painting, called Lo Spasimo di Sicilia, was executed for the Santa Maria dello Spasimo in Palermo.
The church was dedicated to the grief and agony (spasimo) of the Virgin when she witnessed the sufferings of Christ
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