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DÜRER, Albrecht: The Four Holy Men

🖼 The Four Holy Men, 1526
Oil on lindenwood (each panel)
204 × 74 cm
Munich, Germany

Four solemn figures stand in balanced symmetry, rendered with Dürer's precise line and volumetric form. This panel demonstrates Renaissance humanism's engagement with classical proportion and spiritual authority during the Reformation.

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