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Dresden Altarpiece

painting by Dürer

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  • Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
    In Albrecht Dürer: First journey to Italy

    The centre panel from the Dresden Altarpiece, which Dürer painted in about 1498, is stylistically similar to Hercules and betrays influences of Mantegna. In most of Dürer’s free adaptations the additional influence of the more lyrical, older painter Giovanni Bellini, with whom Dürer had become acquainted in Venice, can be…

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