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Numbered "52" on verso.

Suite 19/20 Martha and the Greased Pig T. Huck 2000

This is the last in a series of ten devotional images of the Virgin and Child that Durer engraved over a period of more than twenty years. This is the only one, however, that portrays a sleeping child. Depictions of the infant Jesus asleep in his…

Bocio, meaning "empowered cadaver," are power objects (bo) that represent deceased human beings (cio) though the figure may appear to be alive. A bocio is not a spirit, but a kind of decoy meant to trick death by substituting for a real person.…

The Rajasthani text at the top of this painting directs us to begin at the bottom right, where Guha, chief of the Nishadas, a forest tribe, reports his earlier encounter with Rama to Bharata, outside of his royal tent. The other scenes depict Guha’s…

This folio tells the story from the Adi Parva, the first book of the Mahabharata, of the eagle Garuda, who became the vahana (animal mount) for the god Vishnu. Garuda's mother Vinata and her co-wife Kadru had engaged in a wager that Vinata lost,…

Suite 19/20 The Annual NRA Squirrel Hunt & BBQ T. Huck 2000

In this engraving Durer introduced the values of the Italian Renaissance to northern Europe. The print was much admired in his time and was to be a model for other artists for generations. In 1494-95 as a precocious young artist Durer traveled from…

Suite 19/20 Catwalk: Here They Come! T. Huck 2000