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DÜRER, Albrecht: St Jerome in the Wilderness

🖼 St Jerome in the Wilderness, c. 1495
Oil on panel
23 × 17 cm
London, United Kingdom

Meticulous linework renders a scholar-saint amid rocky wilderness, surrounded by symbolic animals and intricate vegetation. Dürer's engraving revolutionized Northern European printmaking, blending Renaissance humanism with Northern detail to create portable, widely-distributed sacred imagery.

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