Cleveland Museum of Art
The Small Passion: Christ on the Mount of Olives
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-91cf98b472c5
- Date
- 1509–1511
- Medium
- woodcut
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 138496
From LinkedCulture
In a tiny woodcut barely larger than a palm, Albrecht Dürer captures Christ kneeling alone in a rocky night landscape while his disciples collapse in sleep just feet away. An angel descends carrying the chalice of suffering, and turbulent clouds frame a winged figure bearing a cross above. Made between 1509 and 1511 as part of his Small Passion series, this print shows Dürer using dense hatching to create extraordinary depth and emotion at miniature scale, making devotional imagery accessible to ordinary people for the first time.
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A religious figure in robes is surrounded by fallen figures, with an angel holding a cross in the upper left.
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- Credit line
- In memory of William J. Collins
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