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DÜRER, Albrecht: Agnes Dürer as St Anne

🖼 Agnes Dürer as St Anne, 1519
Brush on gray primed paper
395 × 292 cm
Vienna, Austria

Soft charcoal lines render a woman's gentle face, her identity conflated with religious iconography through intimate portraiture. Dürer's wife Agnes becomes Saint Anne, blurring personal devotion with spiritual veneration in early sixteenth-century German practice.

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E. H. Gombrich
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