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DÜRER, Albrecht: Betrayal of Christ (No. 3)

🖼 Betrayal of Christ (No. 3), 1508
Engraving
118 × 75 cm
New York, USA

Chaotic violence erupts as soldiers seize Christ amid swirling crowds, rendered in intricate detail with dramatic light and shadow. Dürer's woodcut revolutionized Northern European printmaking, bringing Italian Renaissance complexity to German religious narrative with unprecedented technical mastery.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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