Minneapolis Institute of Art
Christ Nailed to the Cross
Albrecht AltdorferLinkedCulture matchlcp-ec78a3338e8d
- Date
- c. 1513
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 56157
When Albrecht Altdorfer created this woodcut for a tiny book, the Passion had been uppermost in devotions for a full century. The intimate scale makes clear its role in private meditation, as does the brilliantly foreshortened Christ, whose head extends beyond the frame and into the viewer's lap. Such a device was intended to stir pity for, if not complicity in, Christ's death. Germany, Europe
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- Credit line
- Gift of Funds from Mrs. Franklin M. Crosby Jr. and the William Hood Dunwoody Fund, 1947
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