Minneapolis Institute of Art
Christ Carrying the Cross
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-840f7214ff34
- Date
- 1511
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 47526
Albrecht Dürer made three series of Passion prints, two in woodcut and one engraved. Genius that he was, he capitalized on the affective possibilities of each technique. Using the more direct woodcut medium, Dürer presented a very human, very tired Christ weighed down by his cross--and, visually, by the city gate beyond. Engraving allowed for a subtler, more introspective Christ who seems to rise heroically above the heft of his cross and the heckler's taunts. Germany, Europe
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- Credit line
- The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
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