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DÜRER, Albrecht: Christ on the Mount of Olives

🖼 Christ on the Mount of Olives, c. 1510
Woodcut
London, United Kingdom

Anguished figures kneel amid rocky terrain under stormy skies, rendered in precise Northern Renaissance detail with dramatic chiaroscuro. Dürer's woodcut captures Christ's spiritual agony in Gethsemane, establishing the emotional intensity and technical mastery that defined German Renaissance printmaking.

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