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DÜRER, Albrecht: Death of Orpheus

🖼 Death of Orpheus, 1494
Pen drawing
289 × 225 cm
Hamburg, Germany

Violent chaos erupts as frenzied figures tear apart a central male figure in dense woodland, rendered with intricate Northern Renaissance detail. Dürer captures the mythological death of Orpheus, exploring themes of divine punishment and human brutality through dramatic woodcut technique that influenced Northern European art.

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