Christ on the Mount of Olives
Albrecht Dürer and Georg Mack the Elder · 1508 and 1580s · engraving hand-colored with watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold and silver, on laid paper mounted to a piece of parchment decorated with floral borders
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About this picture
Christ on the Mount of Olives is a public-domain drawing by Albrecht Dürer and Georg Mack the Elder, dated 1508 and 1580s. Engraving hand-colored with watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold and silver, on laid paper mounted to a piece of parchment decorated with floral borders. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Christ on the Mount of Olives” (1508 and 1580s) is the kind of engraving or woodcut Dürer sent across Europe, modeling form with line rather than with a wash of color.
About the artist
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a German painter and printmaker in Nuremberg. His engravings and woodcuts circulated across Europe and taught other artists his way of modeling with line.
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