Woodblock for Samson Rending the Lion
Albrecht Dürer
ca. 1497–98
Medium
Pear wood
Dimensions
15 3/8 in. × 11 in. × 1 in. (39.1 × 27.9 × 2.5 cm)
Classification
Blocks
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919
Accession Number
19.73.255
Tags
LionsMenSamson
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 ...