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DÜRER, Albrecht: The Large Passion: 8. The Entombment

🖼 The Large Passion: 8. The Entombment, c. 1497
Woodcut
39 × 28 cm
Vienna, Austria

Dense woodcut lines render Christ's limp body lowered into shadow, surrounded by grieving figures in angular Gothic folds. Dürer's woodcut series revolutionized religious narrative art, combining Northern technical mastery with emotional intensity that defined German Renaissance printmaking.

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E. H. Gombrich
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