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DÜRER, Albrecht: Lamentation for Christ

🖼 Lamentation for Christ, 1500-03
Oil on panel
151 × 121 cm
Munich, Germany

Grief-stricken figures cradle Christ's limp body in dense, layered composition rendered with meticulous German precision. Dürer's Lamentation pioneers emotional intensity in Northern Renaissance art, blending Flemish detail with Italian Renaissance drama to redefine religious pathos.

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