Albrecht Dürer1498
The Deposition (Entombment)
Joseph of Arimathea wraps the body of Jesus in clean linen and lays it in a new tomb hewn from the rock, rolling a great stone across the entrance (Matthew 27). A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from his Large Passion (1498).
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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.