About this artwork

Dürer referred to this print in his Netherlands travel diary as ‘Nemesis’. The subject is derived from a neo-Latin poem by the Italian humanist Angelo Poliziano as ‘synthesises the classical goddess of retribution with fickle Fortune’, as one scholar has put it. The landscape has been identified as a view of Chiusi in Southern Tyrol, an area Dürer had passed through on his way to Venice. This early impression shows the fine contrasts and brilliant quality of Dürer’s engraving.

Updated before 2020

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Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer