DÜRER, Albrecht: St Apollonia

✦ DÜRER, Albrecht

🖼 St Apollonia, 1521

◈ Chalk drawing on green primed paper

⊞ 414 × 288 cm

▣ Kupferstichkabinett

◎ Berlin, Germany

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Delicate lines render St Apollonia holding her attribute—a tooth and pincers—with austere Gothic precision. Dürer's 1521 woodcut captures the saint's torment and resilience, establishing her as protector against dental suffering in Northern Renaissance devotional imagery.

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E. H. Gombrich

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