- Master of the Year 1446. Christ Nailed to the Cross
Size of the original engraving, 4⅛ × 3¼ inches In the Royal Print Room, Berlin Chief among the engravers who show most clearly the influence of the Master of the Playing Cards is the Master of the Year 1446, so named from the date which appears in the Flagellation. His prints present a more or less primitive appearance, and were it not for this date, one might be tempted, on internal evidence, to assign them to an earlier period. In the Passion series, in particular, many of the figures are more gnome-like than human. Such creatures as the man blowing a horn, in Christ Nailed to the Cross, and the man pulling upon a rope, in the same print, recall to our minds, by an association of ideas, the old German fairy tales. - Master of the Playing Cards. Man of Sorrows
To his [Master of the Playing Cards.] latest and most mature period must be assigned the Man of Sorrows—in some ways his finest, and certainly his most moving, plate. Not only has he differentiated between the textures of the linen loin-cloth and the coarser material of the cloak; but the column, the cross with its beautiful and truthful indication of the grain of the wood, and the ground itself, all are treated with a knowledge and a sensitiveness that is surprising. The engraver’s greatest triumph, however, is in the figure of Christ. There is a feeling for form and structure, sadly lacking in the work of his successors, and his suggestion of the strained and pulsing veins, which throb through the Redeemer’s tortured limbs, is of a compelling truth. - The Temptation of Jesus
Matthew 4:10, 11 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. - Crucifixion
Crucifixion of Christ - Jesus on Cross
Jesus on Cross - 07 - Jesus falls second time
- 15 - Resurrected
15 - Resurrected - 01- Jesus is sentenced to death
- 02 - they carry the cross
- 03 - Jesus falls first time
- 04 - Jesus finds his mother
- 05 = Simon forced to carry the cross
- 06 - Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
- 14 - Jesus is laid in the tomb
14 - Jesus is laid in the tomb - 13 - Jesus is taken down from the Cross
13 - Jesus is taken down from the Cross - 12 - Jesus dies on the Cross
12 - Jesus dies on the Cross - 08 - Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
- 09 - Jesus falls under the cross
- 10 - Jesus is stripped of his garments
- 11 - Jesus is nailed to the Cross