The Man of Sorrows

Prints and Drawings

1520

Sebald Beham
German, 1500-1550

Sebald Beham renders his engraving of The Man of Sorrows in intricate detail. Christ’s blood gushes into a chalice as it becomes Communion wine, and he grasps a Communion wafer imprinted with the Crucifixion in his right hand. This sizeable wafer is meant for the act of consecration, in which visibility was vital, rather than the individual consumption of smaller hosts that would have been also been produced by the nearby host iron. A priest holding the wafer aloft broke it at the culminating moment, copying Christ’s breaking of bread at the Last Supper.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hans Sebald Beham
Title: The Man of Sorrows
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
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Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image/sheet, trimmed to platemark: 13 × 8.6 cm (5 1/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
Reference Number: 1919.2537
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