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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This woodcut is from a series depicting the power of women, a popular early 16th-century theme. The series highlights a woman’s capacity to use beauty, charm, and ruse to thwart even the cleverest men. Here, Van Leyden illustrated the cunning of the Roman emperor’s daughter. According to legend, the poet Virgil fell in love with the maiden, but she objected and punished him for his impudence. After promising to raise Virgil to her bedroom window in a basket, she left him hanging halfway. The printmaker omitted the emperor’s daughter from the scene but added the woman advising her son against such folly.
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Lucas van Leyden — The Poet Virgil in a Basket
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Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) — Life of the Virgin: Th
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) — The Circumcision
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Albrecht Dürer — The Presentation of the Virgin in the Templ
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) — Life of the Virgin: Pr
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer — Ecce Homo: Christ wear
Lucas Cranach (German, 1472–1553) — Martyrdom of St. Andrew
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) — The Presentation of the
Lucas Cranach (German, 1472–1553) — Martyrdom Series
