Albrecht Dürer1509
Christ Before Herod
Sent by Pilate to Herod, Jesus stands silent before the curious ruler, who questions him at length and then mocks him before sending him back (Luke 23). A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from his Small Passion (1509).
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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.