A Sword Will Pierce
Your Own Soul Too
The Life of Mary and
the Passion of Christ
in the Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer
Life of Mary
Joachim and Anna Embracing under the Golden Gate
The Immaculate Conception, which according to
legend took place at the Golden Gate, teaches that Mary was conceived sinless.
This is the only woodcut in the series with
Dürer’s monogram and date. (The date is often misread as 1509.)
1504