The Elevation of the Cross from a set of The Passion
With subtlety and dexterity, this tapestry's weavers- who apparently used the monograms AR and ICM- borrowed, enlarged, reversed, and added color to Hans Wechtlin’s design for the woodcut of the Elevation of the Cross in Johannes Schott’s Das Leben Jesu published in 1508.
This panel is part of a group of similarly sized scenes from the New Testament, woven across more than two decades, all closely based upon printed prototypes by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Schäufelein and Martin Schongauer, as well as by Wechtlin. Together with other surviving tapestry panels now in the Museum Haus Löwenberg in Gengenbach and spread across private collections, these small, captioned Biblical scenes were probably made on speculation for sale to Protestant individuals and religious institutions in the Strasburg area around the turn of the seventeenth century.
This panel is part of a group of similarly sized scenes from the New Testament, woven across more than two decades, all closely based upon printed prototypes by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Schäufelein and Martin Schongauer, as well as by Wechtlin. Together with other surviving tapestry panels now in the Museum Haus Löwenberg in Gengenbach and spread across private collections, these small, captioned Biblical scenes were probably made on speculation for sale to Protestant individuals and religious institutions in the Strasburg area around the turn of the seventeenth century.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Elevation of the Cross from a set of The Passion
- Artist: Design based on woodcuts by Hans Wechtlin (German, Strasbourg ca. 1480/85–after 1526)
- Artist: Ulrich Pinder (German, active 1493–before 1519) in "Speculum passionis domini nostri..." (1507)
- Artist: and published by Johann Schott (German, 1477–ca. 1548 Strasbourg) in "Das Leben Jesu Christi..." (1508)
- Maker: Unidentified Weaver's Mark (AR)
- Maker: Unidentified Weaver's Mark (ICM)
- Date: 1600
- Culture: German, Alsace, possibly Strasbourg
- Medium: Wool, silk, metal thread (20 warp threads per inch, 8 per cm.)
- Dimensions: 39 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. (100.3 x 75.6 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911
- Object Number: 11.148.6
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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Multiple artists/makers
February 3, 1511
Multiple artists/makers
1522
Hans Wechtlin
ca. 1510
Hans Wechtlin
late 15th–early 16th century
Hans Wechtlin
ca. 1510
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