AFD3981

Title

Subject

Description

The international influence of Dürer’s Small Passion woodcuts can be seen in this Italian book of meditations on the Passion, which reveals obvious dependence on Dürer’s image of Christ before Caiaphas. Here, although an anonymous Venetian artisan has simplified Dürer’s composition of Christ’s trial, the high priest’s recoiling posture clearly was derived from the 1511 woodcut.

Creator

Valvassori, Giovanni Andrea, fl. 1530–1572, printer.

Source

AFD3981. Meditationi devotissime di Santo Bonaventura Cardinale fondate sopra la passione del nostro Signore Iesu Christo novamente historiate. Venice: Giovanni Andrea Valvassore, [c. 1530].

Relation

Influence

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Latin

Type

Meditations with woodcut illustrations

Collection

Books and Prints by Albrecht Durer

Citation

Valvassori, Giovanni Andrea, fl. 1530–1572, printer., “AFD3981,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed March 5, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1863.