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DÜRER, Albrecht: Nemesis or Good Fortune

🖼 Nemesis or Good Fortune, c. 1502
Engraving
332 × 232 cm
Karlsruhe, Germany

Soaring above a miniature landscape, winged Fortune balances precariously on a globe, rendered in intricate engraving with crystalline detail. Dürer's 1502 masterwork explores Renaissance themes of divine providence and human fate, establishing him as Northern Europe's supreme printmaker.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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