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The Dead Christ

Albrecht Dürer, 1505

The Dead Christ by Albrecht Dürer
The Dead Christ by Albrecht Dürer, 24 cm × 17 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

24 cm × 17 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 7 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 17 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
17 cm
Width
24 cm
Medium
charcoal; framing line in graphite (top edge)
Kind
Drawing
Made in
Germany, early 16th Century
Where the measurement comes from
Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it
Sheet: 17.1 x 23.5 cm (6 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit
Gift of the Hanna Fund

Ask this work

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?
24 cm × 17 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1505. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?
Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Gift of the Hanna Fund.
How was it made?
Charcoal; framing line in graphite (top edge), made in Germany, early 16th Century, Germany, early 16th Century.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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