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DÜRER, Albrecht: Nativity

🖼 Nativity, 1504
Engraving
183 × 120 cm
Berlin, Germany

Golden light streams through a modest stable, illuminating Mary, Joseph, and the Christ Child in intimate detail. Dürer's 1504 woodcut revolutionized Northern European religious imagery by infusing spiritual narrative with meticulous Renaissance realism and domestic tenderness.

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E. H. Gombrich
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