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DÜRER, Albrecht: Lamentation over Christ (No. 12)

🖼 Lamentation over Christ (No. 12), 1507
Engraving
115 × 71 cm
New York, USA

Grief-stricken figures surround Christ's lifeless body in dense, emotionally charged composition rendered with precise Northern Renaissance detail. Dürer's woodcut pioneered emotional intensity in religious prints, establishing the Lamentation as a vehicle for profound spiritual and human suffering across German art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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