Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples, from The Small Passion

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SKU: TRG-PRINT-METM-387409 Category: Giclee Prints Tag: Albrecht Dürer Artist: Dürer, Albrecht

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Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples by Albrecht Dürer brings an act of service into a close, crowded room. Christ bends at the center of the gathering beside a basin, while the seated disciples watch and respond. The lowered posture contrasts with the surrounding heads and hands, making the practical act the scene’s clearest point of attention.

Made around 1508 for The Small Passion, this woodcut gives the episode an intimate domestic scale. Strong walls and furniture contain the gathering, while varied gestures keep the room alive with reaction. Dürer lets humility appear through physical movement rather than elaborate symbolism, finding the force of the subject in the relationship between the kneeling figure and the companions who surround him.