Small Passion Explained
Small Passion is a series of 36 woodcuts and a frontispiece by Albrecht Dürer.[1] One of the best surviving sets is now in the British Museum in London.[2] It was produced in 1511 as a new set of works on Biblical themes and the life and Passion of Christ (its title distinguishes it from his earlier Great Passion) in 1511, the same year as he republished earlier works such as Apocalypse.
List
- Frontispiece
- Fall of Man
- Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise
- Annunciation
- Nativity of Jesus
- Christ Bids Farewell to his Mother
- Christ Enters Jerusalem
- Christ Drives the Merchants from the Temple
- Last Supper
- Christ Washes the Disciples' Feet
- Agony in the Garden
- Christ Arrested
- Christ Before Ananias
- Christ Before Caiphas
- Christ Mocked
- Christ Before Pilate
- Christ Before Herod
- Flagellation
- Christ Crowned with Thorns
- Ecce homo
- Pilate Washes his Hands
- Christ Carries his Cross
- Veronica and the Sudarium
- Christ Nailed to the Cross
- Crucifixion
- Christ Descends into Limbo
- Christ Taken Down from the Cross
- Lamentation
- Burial of Christ
- Resurrection of Christ
- Christ Appears to his Mother
- Noli me tangere
- Supper at Emmaus
- Incredulity of Saint Thomas
- Ascension
- Pentecost
- Last Judgement
See also
Bibliography
- Costantino Porcu (ed.), Dürer, Rizzoli, Milano 2004.
Notes and References
- Hass . Angela . 2000 . Two Devotional Manuals by Albrecht Dürer: The "Small Passion" and the "Engraved Passion." Iconography, Context and Spirituality . Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte . 63 . 2 . 169–230 . 10.2307/1594938 . 0044-2992.
- Web site: Collection search: Small Passion Albrecht Dürer . 2024-02-16 . The British Museum.
