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The Holy Family with Two Musician Angels

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

The Holy Family with Two Musician Angels by Albrecht Dürer
The Holy Family with Two Musician Angels by Albrecht Dürer, 12 cm × 12 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

12 cm × 12 cm

Smaller than your phone. You would need 14 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 12 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
12 cm
Width
12 cm
Medium
woodcut
Kind
Print
Made in
Germany
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: 12.2 x 12.2 cm (4 13/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Credit
Gift of William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection

Ask this work

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

How big is it?
12 cm × 12 cm. Smaller than your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1511. 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 William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection.
How was it made?
Woodcut, made in Germany, Germany.
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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One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Hangs well beside

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.