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Saint James the Less, The Martyrdom of the Apostles, c. 1512. Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper.
Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper · Image/block/sheet: 16.2 × 12.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Saint James the Less, The Martyrdom of the Apostles
- Artist
- Lucas Cranach the Elder German, 1472-1553
- Date
- c. 1512
- Medium
- Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/block/sheet: 16.2 × 12.6 cm (6 7/16 × 5 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1472–1553
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.