Man of Sorrows
Unknown artist
1460–1475
- Medium
- Woodcut hand-colored with brush and watercolor on cream laid paper, edge-mounted to vellum, laid down on wooden book cover covered in hand-tooled leather with tooled metal hinges
- Dimensions
- Image: 39.7 × 26.2 cm (15 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 26.9 cm (16 × 10 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- woodcut
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printlaid paperprints and drawingwoodcut (process)watercolorwoodcutpaper (fiber product)
About
Images such as the Man of Sorrows were intended to shock the beholder into repentance. The pristine condition, and even survival, of this hand-colored woodcut is primarily due to its having been pasted-like many early devotional woodcuts-within a protective book cover. This unique impression was discovered amidst the rubble during the bombardment of London in 1945.
