Albrecht Dürer's suite of illustrations known as the
The Engraved Passion is a set of 15 images derived from copperplate
engravings created by Dürer between 1501 and 1513.
Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Artists, 1568)
referred to this series of illustrations as "the ultimate in perfection and
quality
attainable in the medium as regards beauty, variety of
vestments and composition". More than 300 years later, Knackfuss
(Durer: H Grevel & Co, London; 1900) writes
in similarly glowing terms:
The Passion on copper begins with a frontispiece
representing the Man of Sorrows
standing by the column of the Flagellation, with
streams of the redeeming blood
pouring from his wounded wide on the heads of Mary and
John, who stand here
as representatives of all redeemed mankind. Then it
relates the story of Christ's
suffering, death and victory over death in little
prints of delicate execution, the
special character of which is a profound sympathy with
the subject represented - a
subject well suited to the devoted and concentrated
labour of the engraver on
copper. If the Little Passion on wood may be called a
popular narrative, the
Passion on copper may be compared to a series of poems
of deep emotion. If you
look at these little prints with a devotion similar to
that which went to their
production, you will find in them a source of
never-ending enjoyment.
Knackfuss also notes the significant technical skill
developed by Dürer throughout this series:
The prints of the Passion on copper produced in 1512, a
year in which Dürer was
able to give himself up to this work with more abundant
leisure, considerably
surpass in delicacy those which were engraved earlier.
Generally speaking, it was
at this period that Dürer made the most rapid and
important advances in handling
the burin. Engraving was now decidedly his favourite
occupation, and constant
practice and the untiring effort to attain something
fresh led him to extraordinary
success.
Our Greeting Cards and Reproduction Prints
For connoisseurs, we have prepared sets of 15 Greeting Cards displaying
each of the images from Dürer's The Engraved Passion and on the left, we show an example of how these Greeting
Cards appear. Ordering one of those sets is as easy as selecting the "Add to
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be consolidated by that feature and shipping and handling costs to any destination in the world are accommodated by our flat-rate fee of US$20 for every
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MS(15) Price: US$75.00
When presented on Greeting Cards, these
images are prepared as tipped-on
plates - in hommage to the hand-crafted
approach typical
of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades
of the 20th Century. Each card is
hand-finished and the images are presented
on White
card stock with an accompanying envelope. On the rear of each
card we also present some information about this great
work and each individual illustration. We have left the interior
of the cards blank so that you may write your own personal message.
Should you wish to order a Reproduction Print from this suite,
we have provided some options below. Of course,
should you wish to
discuss some customised options, we welcome
your contact on any matter through
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