Christ in the Winepress, c. 1490
Meister Matthäus ; Kuttenberg , Germany. The physical structure of actual presses of the time has been re-arranged slightly to accommodate the figure of God being crushed like grapes and his blood running out like the juice of the pressed grapes—echoing the images and stories of the…
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