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Arrest Under Cover of Darkness - Holbein the Younger

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In this detail from The Passion, a work by Hans Holbein the Younger, we see Jesus arrested under cover of darkness.  The oil on limewood, a much larger work which includes this scene, is at the Kunstmuseum, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, in Basle.  Holbein created it between 1524-25.

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Image online, courtesy Web Gallery of Art.

 

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