The Holy Family with the Butterfly

Albrecht Dürer, 1495, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums collections

‘The Holy Family with the Butterfly’ is a work by Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471–1528). It is dated 1495. It is part of the collection Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums collections. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

The work was made in Nuremberg. It is made of print and laid paper. It measures 24 × 19 cm. The work belongs to the genre religious art. The things depicted include Christ Child, Mary, and Odonata.

The catalogue has 249 more works by Albrecht Dürer.

• The Renaissance