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Similar Portrait of Bernhart von Rees, Lamentation of Christ, Portrait of Elector Frederick, The Holy Family with the Drago, Dresden Altarpiece | ||
Visitation is 1503 a woodcut engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, held in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich. The work recounts an episode form the biblical tale of when Mary, heavily pregnant, travels to see her much older cousin Elisabeth, who is now also late with child.
Visitation shows the women as they embrace at the house of Elisabeth's husband Zacharias, who is shown standing at the doorway to the left of the woodcut. Both Zacharias and his wife are old; and he is struck into silence by the fact of his long barren wife having finally conceived a child.
The highly detailed landscape shown in the background is generally regarded to be a climax in Dürer's work, and was likely inspired by the artist's two journeys through the Alps during 1494–95.