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DÜRER, Albrecht: The Large Passion: 2. Christ on the Mount of Olives

🖼 The Large Passion: 2. Christ on the Mount of Olives, c. 1497
Woodcut
39 × 28 cm
Vienna, Austria

Anguished figures crowd a moonlit garden as Christ kneels in prayer, rendered through bold woodcut lines that carve dramatic shadows and emotional intensity. Dürer's monumental religious series established the woodcut as a fine art medium, rivaling painting in expressive power and spiritual depth.

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