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DÜRER, Albrecht: Philipp Melanchthon

🖼 Philipp Melanchthon, 1526
Engraving
174 × 127 cm
Boston, USA

Precise linework renders Melanchthon's contemplative face in three-quarter profile, his intellect evident in furrowed brow and keen gaze. Dürer captures the Protestant reformer at his intellectual peak, establishing the engraved portrait as essential to Renaissance humanism and religious history.

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