Dürer and the Virgin in the Garden

This fascinating and beautiful exhibition traces the development of Dürer's images of the Virgin and Child in a garden through his drawings and prints, including the famous watercolour of ‘The Virgin with the Animals’ from the Albertina in Vienna.

The recent re-assessment of the National Gallery's painting of ‘The Virgin with the Iris’, produced in Dürer's workshop, forms the focus of the display, offering intriguing insights into technical and art-historical investigation.

The exhibition will also bring together the major surviving watercolour studies on which the plants in the National Gallery painting are based. These include some of Dürer's most famous works, the ‘Great Piece of Turf’ from the Albertina in Vienna, and the ‘Irises’ from the Kunsthalle Bremen, as well as Martin Schongauer's beautiful study of ‘Peonies’ from the Getty Museum, owned by Dürer himself. Dürer's painting of 1503 of the ‘Virgin and Child’, from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, is also included. Pressetext

Dürer and the Virgin in the Garden
Albrecht Dürer
Sunley Room