DÜRER, Albrecht: Christ as the Man of Sorrows

✦ DÜRER, Albrecht

🖼 Christ as the Man of Sorrows, c. 1493

◈ Oil on panel

⊞ 30 × 19 cm

▣ Staatliche Kunsthalle

◎ Karlsruhe, Germany

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Haunted eyes meet the viewer as Christ displays wounds with stark frontality, rendered in precise Northern detail. Dürer's 1493 composition established the iconic "Man of Sorrows" type in German art, merging religious devotion with Renaissance humanism.

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E. H. Gombrich

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