The Betrayal of Christ
Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
woodcarving (13 × 10 cm) — 1509
Luke 22:48 - But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?
With a kiss Judas shows the soldiers which one of the men in the Garden of Gethsemane is his master. The Romans then arrest Jesus. In the foreground Peter is fighting with one of the soldiers, whose name is thought to be Malchus.
This woodcarving is number 11 in the Small Passion series, which was published as a book in 1511.
Almost a century later Caravaggio would copy a part of the composition in his Betrayal: the group with the two protagonists and the soldier who stretches his arm to grab Jesus.
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