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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Christ as the Man of Sorrows is a 1401 ink by Netherlandish 15th Century, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a figure sitting on a throne, wearing a green head covering and a white robe covered in red streaks. The background is bright orange with a golden halo behind the head. The throne has blue pillars and a patterned base, and the top border shows a sky with clouds and buildings. The red marks on the figure’s body are meant to look like wounds, which was a common way to show suffering in religious art. This style comes from the Renaissance period. If you like this, look up technique: woodcut to see how artists carved images into wood blocks.
These prints show Christ’s suffering in bold, hand-colored images from 15th-century Northern Europe.
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