Durer Man of Sorrows by Column Tie

Man of Sorrows by Column with Virgin and St. John by Albrecht Durer, 1509, is a copper engraving from the artist’s engraved Passion series. Standing upright by a column in a crown of thorns, the figure of Christ bears the stigmata of the Crucifixion on his hands and feet while he holds the instruments of his scourging. In the distance on a hilltop are three crosses. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter of the Northern Renaissance and also an engraver, printmaker, mathematician and theorist whose woodcut prints and theoretical treatises secured his reputation as one of the greatest artists of Europe. His many paintings, portraits, altarpieces, watercolors, and engravings were the first in the Northern Renaissance to use classical motifs from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. The art of landscape painting began with his watercolors. Durer’s unparalleled skill in drawing and engraving as well as mastery of perspective allowed him rapid execution of a range of motifs which elicit universal admiration to this day.