Christ, Man of Sorrows, Mocked by a Soldier, frontispiece from The Large Passion
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)
1511
- Medium
- Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 28.6 × 19.7 cm (11 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Germany
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This woodcut was part of Albrecht Dürer’s famous series of 12 prints detailing the Passion of Christ. Published in 1511, the prints illustrated a text by the monk Benedictus Chelidonius. The frontispiece of the series, Christ, Man of Sorrows, Mocked by a Soldier, takes place in a supernatural setting. The frame of clouds around the scene indicates that Christ has already ascended to heaven, but the presence of his five mortal wounds show that he is still affected by earthly sin.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
