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[Last Supper] / AD [monogram]. – Antique Print

[Last Supper] / AD [monogram]., 1523 — historic print
[Last Supper] / AD [monogram]., 1523. Historic print from the Religious collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic print of [Last Supper] / AD [monogram]. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The block is signed with the monogram AD, the cipher Albrecht Dürer used on his prints, so the attribution rests on that mark. The scene shows Christ and the twelve apostles at the table, the moment of the Last Supper that the Gospels describe, with its quiet tension as the meal unfolds. Woodcuts like this were cheap to print and easy to circulate, which made them a common way for religious images to reach households in early sixteenth-century Germany. Dürer's blocks were reissued and copied widely, so this impression is worth comparing with other printings of the same design.

Created / published1523
Medium1 print : woodcut ; 21.2 x 30 cm.
GenreWoodcuts 1520-1530.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,682 × 3,797 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220426

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