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DÜRER, Albrecht: Amorous Peasants

🖼 Amorous Peasants, -
Drawing
Milan, Italy

Raucous energy fills this engraving as a couple embraces amid tavern chaos, rendered with Dürer's precise hatching and dynamic composition. The work satirizes peasant life and desire, blending Northern Renaissance technique with humanist social commentary on class and morality.

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