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DÜRER, Albrecht: The Holy Family with St John, The Magdalen and Nicodemus

🖼 The Holy Family with St John, The Magdalen and Nicodemus, c. 1512
Drypoint
216 × 190 cm
Berlin, Germany

Delicate linework renders five figures in intimate devotion, the infant Christ radiating spiritual light amid shadowed faces. Dürer's engraving demonstrates Northern Renaissance mastery of print technique while exploring theological compassion through carefully balanced composition.

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