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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artist:Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) German
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title:Nemesis
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date created:About 1502
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materials:Engraving on paper
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measurements:32.90 x 22.40 cm
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accession number:P 6185
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Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Dürer made a great impact on European art through his outstanding skills as a draughtsman and printmaker. He was also an accomplished painter and writer of theoretical treatises on measurement and proportion, and helped raise the status of artists in his native Germany. Born in Nuremberg, the son...