Albrecht Dürer1510
Christ Taking Leave of His Mother
Knowing his hour has come, Jesus takes leave of his mother before going to the cross, a tender parting drawn from the Passion narrative (John 13). A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from his Small Passion (1510).
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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.