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DÜRER, Albrecht: Mass

🖼 Mass, 1523
Pen
307 × 221 cm
Berlin, Germany

Intricate woodcut rendering depicts a solemn Catholic Mass with precise architectural detail and crowded figures in Gothic space. Dürer's Protestant-era composition reveals theological tensions while demonstrating his mastery of perspective and narrative density in printmaking.

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E. H. Gombrich
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