Albrecht Durer

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Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Durer                                    
     Melencolia I, 1514 In the years 1513 and
1514, Albrecht Durer completed what is known
together as the "meisterstiche", or "master
engravings". Of these three engravings, Knight,
Death and the Devil, St. Jerome in his Study, and
Melencolia I, the latter has presented art
historians with the most enigmatic iconology. 
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Anear the centre of that northern crest   Stands
out level upland bleak and bare, From which the
city east and south and west   Sinks gently in
long waves and throned there An Image sits,
stupendous, superhuman, The bronze colossus of a
winged Woman,   Upon a graded granite base
foursquare  William Watson (18581935)
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What holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them
range?  Not the strange sea, strange earth, or
heavn more strange  But her own phantom
dwarfing these great three,  More strange than
all, more old than heavn, earth, sea.   James
Thomson (183482) What is this image about? Tell
me the story. These poems were written about 250
years after Durer
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