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Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me, from the Ten Commandments, 1516. Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper.
Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper · Image/block: 13.4 × 10.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me, from the Ten Commandments
- Artist
- Hans Baldung Grien German, 1484/85-1545
- Date
- 1516
- Medium
- Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/block: 13.4 × 10.4 cm (5 5/16 × 4 1/8 in.); Sheet: 13.9 × 11 cm (5 1/2 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.