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DÜRER, Albrecht: The Lamentation

🖼 The Lamentation, 1522
Silverpoint
293 × 416 cm
Hamburg, Germany

Rendered in woodcut, mourners cluster densely around Christ's lifeless body, their gestures sharp with anguish. Dürer's angular lines and crowded composition amplify grief's intensity, establishing the woodcut medium as powerful for religious emotion.

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