Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land)

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1486

Erhard Reuwich (Netherlandish, c. 1455–c. 1490)
text by Bernhard von Breydenbach (German, c. 1440–c. 1497)
published by Peter Schöffer (German, c. 1425–1503)

The first illustrated travel book about the journey to the Holy Land, this volume offered a pilgrimage to distant sacred sites from the comfort of one’s own home. A bestseller, it was translated into German, French, Dutch, and Spanish before 1500. To create the illustrations the artist traveled with the canon of the Utrecht cathedral from 1483 to 1484, depicting the Mediterranean cities from Venice to the Holy Land with relative accuracy compared to other works of the era. The two longest foldouts in the book showed Venice and the culminating destination of Jerusalem, a city central to all three major Abrahamic religions. The original woodblocks made their own pilgrimages around Europe for reprinting in several subsequent editions.

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Artist: Erhard Reuwich
Title: Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land)
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Published 1486
Medium: Book with letterpress and woodcuts in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Closed: 32 × 23 × 3.5 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1947.474
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The Art Institute of Chicago, “Spreading Devotion: Japanese and European Religious Prints,” April 4–June 21, 2015, no cat. Map of Jerusalem exhibited.

Hollstein XXXIII, 197.2

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