Large Passion

In the 1490s Dürer began to make individual prints that would eventually become part of the Large Passion. Works such as the Agony in the Garden and Lamentation are representative examples of this early style, in which energetic, calligraphic lines dominate the composition. Dürer did not "complete" the cycle until around 1510, when he added such scenes as the Betrayal and the Resurrection, images whose lucid compositions and subtle tonalities stand as testaments to the remarkable mastery Dürer had developed over the woodcut medium in the intervening decade.

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