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Michel Wolgemut

The Scourging of Christ (verso), and The Israelites Enslaved in Egypt (recto), from Schatzbehalter (Treasury)

1491, portfolio assembled 1929
Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions and letterpress in black with rubrication (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper
25 × 17.5 cm (9.8 × 6.9 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Michael Wolgemut (teacher of Albrecht Dürer, whose work can be seen nearby) produced this woodcut as part of a book about the life of Jesus. In the 15th century, illustrations in printed books were enlivened by the addition of hand-coloring in watercolor. The colorist of Wolgemut’s gruesome depiction of the flagellation emphasized Jesus’s suffering by adding streams of blood running down his body, a detail absent in the woodblock.

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