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DÜRER, Albrecht: The Bagpiper

🖼 The Bagpiper, 1514
Engraving
115 × 74 cm
New York, USA

Rendered in precise engraving, a solitary bagpiper stands in profile, his weathered features and tattered clothing captured with unflinching detail. Dürer elevates this humble peasant musician to monumental status, challenging Renaissance hierarchies that privileged nobility and mythological subjects over common folk life.

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