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DÜRER, Albrecht: Flagellation (No. 6)

🖼 Flagellation (No. 6), 1512
Engraving
118 × 74 cm
Princeton, USA

Violent motion fills this woodcut as Christ's tormentors surge around him in frenzied brutality, their bodies twisted in aggressive gestures. Dürer's intricate line work transforms religious suffering into psychological intensity, establishing the Flagellation as a cornerstone of Northern Renaissance printmaking and emotional expressionism.

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