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File:Albrecht Dürer, Saint John Devouring the Book, probably c. 1496-1498, NGA 851.jpg

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Albrecht Dürer: Saint John eating the book  wikidata:Q18338542 reasonator:Q18338542
Artist
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
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Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
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Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
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artist QS:P170,Q5580
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Saint John Devouring the Book
Series title Apocalypse Edit this at Wikidata
Object type woodcut print Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people John the Evangelist Edit this at Wikidata
Date probably c. 1496/1498
Medium woodcut print
Dimensions sheet (trimmed to image): height: 40 cm (15.7 in); width: 28.6 cm (11.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,40U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,28.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
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1941.3.9
Place of creation Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line given by Philip Hofer
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