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DÜRER, Albrecht: Nuremberg Woman Dressed for Church

🖼 Nuremberg Woman Dressed for Church, 1500
Pen and ink and watercolour on paper
325 × 218 cm
Vienna, Austria

Intricate linework captures a Nuremberg woman in elaborate Renaissance dress, her posture dignified and frontal against plain background. Dürer's precise engraving documents early 16th-century German fashion and social status, establishing his reputation as both portraitist and cultural observer.

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