Harrowing of Hell. (Reverse copy after Albrecht Dürer's 'Harrowing of Hell' from 'The engraved Passion'.), Unknown, engraver (printmaker), after 1512, engraving, The Engraved Passion (1507-1512) was one of four major series of religious prints made by Albrecht Dürer, and helped to establish his reputation as an outstanding Renaissance printmaker. The others were the woodcut series of the Life of the Virgin, the Great Passion, and the Little Passion, all published in 1511. The Engraved Passion consists of fifteen small scale engravings and tells the story of Christ's betrayal by Judas, his crucifixion and resurrection. Dürer is renowned for inventing new and imaginative ways to depict scenes from Christian stories, and in the Engraved Passion the compositions of each plate are dramatic, intricate and complex, with emotive contrasts of light and shadow. Unlike the more populist woodcut prints, they were designed to appeal to a more exclusive market of connoisseurs and collectors. Because