AER1214

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Subject

Description

This first edition of the Gospels in Arabic was illustrated with sixty-eight woodcuts. The illustrations were designed for this edition by the Italian painter and printmaker Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630). Tempesta was a highly gifted and original artist, but the exhibited image corresponds so closely to Dürer’s woodcut of Christ Nailed to the Cross in the Small Passion that its creation seems to have been intended as an act of homage to great the German printmaker.

Creator

Raimondi, Giovanni Battista, 1540–1630, editor and Tempesta, Antonio, 1555–1630, artist.

Source

AER1214. [Arabic Gospels]. Evangelium sanctum Domini nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis Sanctis, id est, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne. Rome: Typographia Medicea, 1591.

Relation

Influence

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Arabic; Latin

Type

Gospels with woodcut illustrations

Collection

Books and Prints by Albrecht Durer

Citation

Raimondi, Giovanni Battista, 1540–1630, editor and Tempesta, Antonio, 1555–1630, artist., “AER1214,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed March 13, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1861.