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DÜRER, Albrecht: Small Passion: 11. Christ Taken Captive

🖼 Small Passion: 11. Christ Taken Captive, 1511
Woodcut
London, United Kingdom

Chaos erupts as soldiers seize Christ, their weapons and twisted bodies filling the dense composition with violent energy rendered in fine woodcut lines. Dürer's Small Passion series democratized religious narrative through affordable prints, making intimate spiritual drama accessible to ordinary believers across Northern Europe.

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