Abstract
This brief, well‐illustrated introduction to the Getty Research Institute's recent acquisitions of prints by the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) includes discussions on one of the artist's earliest multi-figure woodcuts, Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Christians (ca. 1496–97), and a complete set of the 1511 edition of Life of the Virgin. The strategic acquisitions also include a magnificent example of the 1511 woodcut of St. Christopher. Its fluid lines give the composition the appearance of a drawing, and therefore demonstrates how far Dürer had challenged the technical conventions of woodcutting. This essay ends with an overview of one of only six etchings produced by the artist, the enigmatic Desperate Man (ca. 1515).
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