ID: 700008804 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008804	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Woodblock for Samson Rending the Lion (wood block (printing block); Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471-1528 Nuremberg); ca. 1497-1498; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 19.73.255;)

Note: Albrecht Dürer's remarkable woodcuts were created by printing blocks such as this one, typically carved from a fruit wood, onto a sheet of paper. Whether Dürer cut his own woodblocks or drew the design on the block and commissioned a highly skilled woodcutter to do the actual carving remains an open question. The unparalleled subtlety with which the image was chiseled into the surface has been used as evidence both for and against Dürer's participation. The intricacies involved in shaping the patterns of curving and tapering lines in order to create pictorial effects never before achieved in woodcut must certainly have required Dürer's close supervision if not his hand on the knife. The block, still in use more than a century after the artist's death, was recut in places to strengthen the image, which had begun to wear away. Several of the artist's woodblocks have survived.

Titles:

Woodblock for Samson Rending the Lion (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

wood block (printing block) [300234278] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for printing and printmaking>, printing surfaces (equipment), printing blocks (printing surfaces))

Classifications:

blocks / plates (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1497-1498

Creator Display:

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471-1528 Nuremberg) [preferred,VP]

Dürer, Albrecht (German printmaker and painter, 1471-1528) [500115493]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 19.73.255

Credit Line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919

Display Materials: pear wood

	pear (wood) [300012338]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

Dimensions: Overall: 15 3/8 x 11 in. (39.1 x 27.9 cm)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Samson and the Lion [901000828]
	.....((Life of Samson, Old Testament narratives, Old Testament iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Related Works:

	printing plate/block for .... Samson Fighting with the Lion [700008805]
	..........woodcut (print); Dürer, Albrecht (German, 1471-1528); ca. 1497/1498;

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Woodblock for Samson Rending the Lion	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)