Word: albrechts
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...Albrecht DŸrer (1471-1528) was the master of Renaissance printmaking, and his use of this first reproducible media can seem precociously cunning for a pre-modern artist. Throughout his career, he produced five complete series of 'Passions,' describing the stages of Christ's suffering and crucifixion. They were marketed to the masses, as devotional material to be studied in quiet meditation. Bound together into books, they were sold by Drer's wife at local fairs and by clergy at places of pilgrimage. According to the first and most unreliable of art historians, Giorgio Vasari, Drer's mid-life...