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DÜRER, Albrecht: Holy Family with Three Hares

🖼 Holy Family with Three Hares, 1498
Woodcut
395 × 285 cm
Karlsruhe, Germany

Intricate engraving captures the Madonna cradling Christ child while Joseph watches, with three hares mysteriously occupying the foreground. Dürer's fusion of sacred narrative with symbolic detail—hares signifying fertility and resurrection—established the Northern Renaissance mastery of printmaking and complex iconography.

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