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Dürer issues the Life of the Virgin as a dated woodcut book

In 1511 Dürer issued the Life of the Virgin as a woodcut book, in the same year as bound Large Passion and other series. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He designed the Life of the Virgin woodcuts and issued them as a book in 1511. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1511 Dürer issued the Life of the Virgin as a woodcut book, in the same year as bound Large Passion and other series. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He designed the Life of the Virgin woodcuts and issued them as a book in 1511. Block-cutters and printers shared making; the series invention is his. A 1511 Marian book is a different series. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

Benedictus Chelidonius’s Latin verses, block-cutters, and a Nuremberg shop share the book. A narrative cycle is not unique church doctrine. Later bound sets are access. Named others on the file: Chelidonius as verse author, unnamed Formschneider, and printers share the 1511 book. The public setting is the file around 1511-01-01. Contribution type is direct. The instrument stays Dürer issues the Life of the Virgin as a dated woodcut book. The setting of Dürer issues the Life of the Virgin as a dated woodcut book is the public file around 1511-01-01. Contribution type is direct. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Why it matters

Direct on the series issue. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated illustrated book put a Marian narrative cycle into a public print market. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Albrecht Dürer

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He designed the Life of the Virgin woodcuts and issued them as a book in 1511. Block-cutters and printers shared making; the series invention is his.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Albrecht DürerEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Met and Britannica independently date the 1511 Life of the Virgin book as distinct from 1498 Apocalypse. Official: The Met — Dürer, Life of the Virgin (https://www.metmuseum.org/ (opens in a new tab); The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Independent: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, woodcut books 1511 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: The Met — Dürer, Life of the Virgin (https://www.metmuseum.org/ (opens in a new tab); The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Independent carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, woodcut books 1511 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: 1511 Life of the Virgin issue. Not established: unique sales figures, or that 1498 is this book. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer issues the Life of the Virgin as a dated woodcut book under 1511-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Dürer issues the Life of the Virgin as a dated woodcut book are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Dürer issues the Life of the Virgin as a dated woodcut book. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1511-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAlbrecht Dürer
  2. contributed toFactDürer issues the Life of the Virgin as a dated woodcut book
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Dürer issues the Life of the Virgin as a dated woodcut book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-life-virgin-1511

https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-life-virgin-1511

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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