Albrecht Dürer1497
Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden)
In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus kneels in anguished prayer while his disciples sleep nearby, asking that the cup pass from him yet yielding to the Father's will (Matthew 26). A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from his Large Passion (1497).
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About Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528 · German
Albrecht Dürer was a Nuremberg painter, printmaker, and theorist whose four great biblical woodcut cycles — the Apocalypse (1498), the Large Passion (1497–1511), the Life of the Virgin (1503–1511), and the Small Passion (1509–1511) — defined Northern Renaissance religious imagery and shaped Reformation-era visual theology across Europe.