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DÜRER, Albrecht: Lamentation for the Dead Christ

🖼 Lamentation for the Dead Christ, 1495-98
Woodcut
395 × 292 cm
London, United Kingdom

Grief-stricken figures gather around Christ's lifeless body in dense, angular composition rendered through precise engraving. Dürer's Northern Renaissance masterwork captures raw emotion while demonstrating his revolutionary printmaking technique that democratized art across Europe.

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E. H. Gombrich
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