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The Apostles' Creed (Das Symbolum der Heiligen Aposteln)

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork details

Date:
1548
Medium:
Book with fifteen woodcuts with letterpress in black on cream laid paper, in eighteenth-century full brown sheepskin, sewn on raised bands, with gold tooled decoration on inner-edges of boards, blind lines and gold titling on the spine, hand-sewn silk headbands, marbled endsheets, and a purple silk page marker
Culture:
Germany
Dimensions:
3000 × 1992 px
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