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DÜRER, Albrecht: Small Passion: 6. Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem

🖼 Small Passion: 6. Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, 1511
Woodcut
London, United Kingdom

Crowded chaos fills Jerusalem's streets as Christ rides a donkey through dense woodcut lines, figures pressing from all angles. Dürer's Small Passion series democratized religious imagery through affordable prints, reaching common people and reshaping how devotion was experienced beyond church walls.

The story of art
The story of art
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