An engraving by the German artist Albrecht Durer, dated 1523, showing the apostle Bartholomew. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 19.73.55, Fletcher Fund, 1919.
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Origins
Attributed ToBartholomew is traditionally shown holding the flaying knife that recalls the manner of his martyrdom, said to have been flayed alive; Durer's engraving keeps that attribute. The print belongs to a run of single apostle and saint engravings Durer produced in the 1520s, near the end of his life, a turn toward isolated devotional figures after the narrative print cycles, such as the Life of the Virgin and the Small Passion, that had occupied him earlier in his career. 1 Classification
Object TypePrint (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 1 Medium (class) Physical Form
MediumEngraving, Albrecht Durer, Germany, 1523, Metropolitan Museum of Art 19.73.55 1 Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Source Saint Bartholomew, accession 19.73.55 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Depicts
The print's directly named subject per the museum's own title, dated 1523, matching the corroborating Wikipedia record's account of the flaying attributes that became standard for Bartholomew from the sixteenth century onward.
Source Saint Bartholomew, accession 19.73.55 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional Source Bartholomew the Apostle (Wikipedia)
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1. Saint Bartholomew, accession 19.73.55 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Artcatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
An engraving by the German artist Albrecht Durer, dated 1523, showing the apostle Bartholomew.
Bartholomew the Apostle (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: BartholomewQuote, Depicts: Bartholomew
Bartholomew is most commonly depicted holding his flayed skin and the knife with which he was skinned.
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