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DÜRER, Albrecht: Man of Sorrows by the Column (No. 1)

🖼 Man of Sorrows by the Column (No. 1), 1509
Engraving
116 × 75 cm
New York, USA

Solitary and gaunt, Christ stands bound to a column in stark engraving, his body marked by suffering rendered through precise hatching. Dürer's devotional image crystallized Northern Renaissance spirituality, blending intense emotion with technical mastery to create a meditation on human pain.

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