Albrecht Dürer1509
Christ Carrying the Cross
On the road to Golgotha Jesus carries his cross under its weight, surrounded by soldiers and the crowd that follows him out of the city (Matthew 27). 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.