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Christ on the Mount of Olives, from The Small Passion

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SKU: TRG-PRINT-METM-388046 Category: Giclee Prints Tags: Angels, Figures, Jesus, Religious Artist: Dürer, Albrecht

Tags: Angels, Figures, Jesus, Religious

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Christ on the Mount of Olives shows Christ kneeling in prayer while his companions sleep across the foreground. Above him an angel appears with a cross, and an approaching group is visible beyond the rocks. The differing levels of the composition set spiritual vigilance against bodily exhaustion, allowing the impending danger to emerge quietly at the edge of the scene.

In this woodcut from The Small Passion, Albrecht Dürer makes the praying figure a concentrated center amid an uneven landscape. The bowed head and joined hands answer the heavenly apparition, while broad folds settle the sleeping bodies into the ground. The image brings solitude, companionship and approaching violence into one compact space, holding the episode in a moment of intense inward attention.

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