The Opening of the Seventh Seal, from The Apocalypse
Albrecht Dürer
1511
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (15.5 × 11 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, 1940
Accession Number
40.139.6(8)
Tags
AngelsMusical InstrumentsApocalypse
About the Artist
Albrecht Dürer · 1471–1528
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) stands as the preeminent figure of the Northern Renaissance and arguably the most influential artist in the history of printmaking. Born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471, and dying in the same city on April 6, 1528, Dürer revolutionized the status of the artist in Northern Europe, transforming printmaking from a commercial craft into an independent fine art and establishing ...