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DÜRER, Albrecht: Christ before Pilate (No. 5)

🖼 Christ before Pilate (No. 5), 1512
Engraving
117 × 75 cm
New York, USA

Turbulent crowds surge around Christ in this woodcut, their gestures violent and chaotic against architectural precision. Dürer's masterwork demonstrates Renaissance printmaking's power to spread religious narrative across Europe while capturing moral chaos through dynamic composition.

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