Albrecht Dürer1510
Pilate Washing His Hands
Seeing that the crowd will not relent, Pilate takes water and washes his hands before them, declaring himself innocent of the blood of Jesus (Matthew 27). A wood engraving by Albrecht Dürer.
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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.