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DÜRER, Albrecht: Hercules at the Crossroad

🖼 Hercules at the Crossroad, 1498
Engraving
323 × 223 cm
New York, USA

Muscular Hercules stands paralyzed between Vice and Virtue, rendered in meticulous engraving with sharp linear detail. Dürer's 1498 print visualizes classical moral philosophy for Northern European audiences, establishing the allegorical crossroads as an enduring Renaissance motif.

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