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DÜRER, Albrecht: Nuremberg and Venetian Women

🖼 Nuremberg and Venetian Women, 1496-97
Pen drawing on paper
241 × 160 cm
Frankfurt, Germany

Delicate pen lines render two elegantly dressed women in profile, their elaborate headdresses and garments meticulously detailed against plain backgrounds. Dürer's comparative study documents early 16th-century fashion differences between German and Italian cultures, establishing him as both ethnographer and master draftsman.

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