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

Date: 1511

## The fact

In 1511 [Dürer](/people/albrecht-durer) 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. Do not twin this with the 1498 Apocalypse. A 1511 Marian book is a different series. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. 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.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

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/; The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Independent: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, woodcut books 1511 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; 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/; The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Independent carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, woodcut books 1511 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: The Met — Dürer, Life of the Virgin (https://www.metmuseum.org/; The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

## Significance

Improving education-access path: a public illustrated Marian book. 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.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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. Do not twin this with the 1498 Apocalypse. A 1511 Marian book is a different series. 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. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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.

## People

- Albrecht Dürer: https://factrail.ai/people/albrecht-durer

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist
- https://www.metmuseum.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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