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DÜRER, Albrecht: St Peter and St John Healing the Cripple (No. 16)

🖼 St Peter and St John Healing the Cripple (No. 16), 1513
Engraving
118 × 74 cm
New York, USA

Dramatic foreshortening and dense crosshatching create volumetric figures in this woodcut scene of miraculous healing. Dürer's technical mastery established the medium as fine art, elevating printmaking from craft to masterwork worthy of oils and tempera.

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E. H. Gombrich
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