Albrecht Dürer1498
The Woman of the Apocalypse and the Seven-Headed Dragon
A woman clothed with the sun and crowned with twelve stars cries out in labor as a great red dragon with seven heads waits to devour her child (Revelation 12). A wood engraving by Albrecht Dürer, from his Apocalypse series.
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About Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528 · German
Albrecht Dürer was a Nuremberg painter, printmaker, and theorist whose four great biblical woodcut cycles — the Apocalypse (1498), the Large Passion (1497–1511), the Life of the Virgin (1503–1511), and the Small Passion (1509–1511) — defined Northern Renaissance religious imagery and shaped Reformation-era visual theology across Europe.