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DÜRER, Albrecht: Small Passion: 28. The Entombment

🖼 Small Passion: 28. The Entombment, 1511
Woodcut
London, United Kingdom

Stone-carved sorrow dominates this woodcut, where Christ's limp body descends into darkness as mourners gesture in anguished farewell. Dürer's intricate cross-hatching transforms grief into monumental tragedy, establishing the Entombment as central to Northern Renaissance spiritual imagery and devotional practice.

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