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The Pilgrimage to the Beautiful Virgin at Regensburg
The Pilgrimage to the Beautiful Virgin at Regensburg

The Pilgrimage to the Beautiful Virgin at Regensburg

Primary (circa 1490–Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, circa 1559)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Date1519 - 1523
MediumWoodcut
DimensionsSheet: 21 7/16 × 15 in. (54.4 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.2333
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.2333
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The Beautiful Virgin was a statue (after an Altdorfer painting of the same subject inside the church) at a popular pilgrimage church in Regensburg in southern Germany. Ostendorfer represents the statue of the Virgin and Child being adored by a crowd of pilgrims. He accentuates the extreme practices of the pilgrims who visited this site, showing figures throwing themselves against the base of the Virgin’s statue or prostrating themselves before her. Unlike A Devotional Virgin, this print can be seen as an expression of Reformation ideology in its condemnation of the worship of saints by Catholics.
Exhibitions
Geistliche Auslegung: Crucifixion with Two Soldiers Casting Lots (recto); and Crucifixion with the Lance and Sponge Bearers, the Virgin and St. John (verso)
Geistliche Auslegung: Crucifixion with Two Soldiers Casting Lots (recto); and Crucifixion with the Lance and Sponge Bearers, the Virgin and St. John (verso)
Workshop of Michael Wolgemut
circa 1485
Saint Luke Painting the Virgin and Child, from the Weltchronik, or Liber Chronicarum [The Nuremberg Chronicle]
Saint Luke Painting the Virgin and Child, from the Weltchronik, or Liber Chronicarum [The Nuremberg Chronicle]
Michael Wolgemut
1493
Image Not Available for The Assumption of the Virgin, after Giuseppe Passeri, plate 131 from the Recueil d’estampes d’après les plus beaux tableaux et d’après les plus beaux dessins qui sont en France [Collection of Prints after the Most Beautiful Paintings and Drawings in Franc
The Assumption of the Virgin, after Giuseppe Passeri, plate 131 from the Recueil d’estampes d’après les plus beaux tableaux et d’après les plus beaux dessins qui sont en France [Collection of Prints after the Most Beautiful Paintings and Drawings in Franc
Paul-Ponce-Antoine Robert
1729
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale…
Vestal Virgin, after Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, after the Antique, plate 18 from Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani
Michael Natalis
1636
Inside the Docks, from Jerrold Blanchard's London, a Pilgrimage; Chapter III: The Docks
Inside the Docks, from Jerrold Blanchard's London, a Pilgrimage; Chapter III: The Docks
After Gustave Doré
1872
Image Not Available for The River Bank - Under the Trees, from Jerrold Blanchard's London, a Pilgrimage;
The River Bank - Under the Trees, from Jerrold Blanchard's London, a Pilgrimage;
After Gustave Doré
1872
Image Not Available for Coffee Stall - Early Morning, from Jerrold Blanchard's London, a Pilgrimage; Chapter XV: Humble Industries
Coffee Stall - Early Morning, from Jerrold Blanchard's London, a Pilgrimage; Chapter XV: Humble Industries
After Gustave Doré
1872
Image Not Available for Louisiana Pilgrimage/Initial (Letter "I")
Louisiana Pilgrimage/Initial (Letter "I")
Clare Leighton
1941
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Louisiana Pilgrimage, from Southern Harvest
Clare Leighton
1941
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Destruction of Nadab and Abihu, from the Cologne Bible
Michael Wolgemut
1479
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A King and Attendant
Workshop of Michael Wolgemut
circa 1479
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Plate from Heldenbuch
Workshop of Michael Wolgemut
1483