Thomas reaches his hand to the wound in Jesus’ side.
Bible in art · John
The Doubting Thomas
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1510
The Met, New York
The Doubting Thomas is one of the last scenes of Dürer’s Small Passion, cut about 1510.
In a room with an arched niche, Jesus stands among the apostles in a blaze of light, his cloak open. Thomas reaches to the wound in his side, Jesus raises his other hand, and the others crowd in to look.
From the text
- The disciples inside, Thomas with them (John 20:26)
- “Reach out your hand and put it into My side” (John 20:27)
The artist’s own
- Straight rays of light cut as fine parallel lines in the wood
- The apostles barefoot in long cloaks
Details
The wound
Raised hand
Jesus raises his other hand.
His feet
The wounds in his feet.
Looking on
The other apostles crowd in.
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919; acc. 19.73.203) · Woodcut · Public Domain — The Met Open Access (CC0). The Met Collection API record: "isPublicDomain": true; The Met marks such works on its website "with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) icon".