Cleveland Museum of Art
The Small Passion: Christ Washing St. Peter's Feet
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- c. 1509–10
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany, late 15th-early 16th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136356
From LinkedCulture
A kneeling Christ, washing the feet of his own disciple, turns the hierarchy of power completely upside down in this small but stunning woodcut. Albrecht Dürer packed extraordinary detail into this image around 1509 to 1510, with candlelight playing across robes and faces and a hanging chandelier visible overhead as Peter reaches down in protest. Part of Dürer's thirty-seven print Small Passion series, it proved that the woodcut medium could carry genuine artistic ambition, helping spread his reputation across all of Europe.
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A man washes another's feet in a basin while surrounded by onlookers in a dimly lit room.
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- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ehrenfest in memory of William J. Collins
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