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DÜRER, Albrecht: „mein Agnes“

🖼 „mein Agnes“, c. 1494
Pen drawing in bistre on white paper
156 × 98 cm
Vienna, Austria

Delicate lines render a young woman's gentle face in silverpoint, her gaze softened by Renaissance ideals of beauty. Dürer's portrait of his betrothed Agnes celebrates intimate devotion while establishing German Renaissance portraiture's technical mastery and emotional restraint.

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