Art Institute of Chicago
Man of Sorrows
Artist unknown
- Date
- 1465/70
- Medium
- Woodcut hand-colored with brush and watercolor on cream laid paper, edge-mounted to vellum, laid down on wooden book cover covered in hand-tooled leather with tooled metal hinges
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Images such as the Man of Sorrows were intended to shock the beholder into repentance. The pristine condition, and even survival, of this hand-colored woodcut is primarily due to its having been pasted-like many early devotional woodcuts-within a protective book cover. This unique impression was discovered amidst the rubble during the bombardment of London in 1945.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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