The Large Passion: The Last Supper
Medium
woodcut
Dimensions
40 × 28.8 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of Ralph King
Accession Number
1926.112
Tags
male
About this artwork
Two distinct styles are evident in the scenes of The Large Passion designed before 1500 and those made 10 years later, after Dürer's second journey to Venice. While the effect of the early scenes relies on using line, those executed after 1500 depend on tonal contrasts. Dürer expanded the number of tones from black and white to a range of grays by using parallel hatchings and by varying the widths of lines and the spaces between them. Areas of white paper seem more or less bright depending on th...