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DÜRER, Albrecht: Young Woman Attacked by Death; or, The Ravisher

🖼 Young Woman Attacked by Death; or, The Ravisher, c. 1494
Engraving
114 × 102 cm
Karlsruhe, Germany

Rendered in precise engraving, a skeletal Death drags a terrified young woman into darkness while her companion flees. Dürer's haunting memento mori confronts mortality's randomness, blending Northern Renaissance technique with profound existential dread about fate's inevitability.

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