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...with some of his most typical images. His biggest etching, Landscape with the Cannon, sets a turbaned Turk (which Dürer copied from a painting by Giovanni's older brother Gentile Bellini) in the midst of a landscape he sketched on the way to Bamberg. Around 1501 he engraved Nemesis???the goddess of fortune, bulbous as a German wardrobe, riding her sphere above the earth. Though it looks nothing like the studies in ideal proportion by Italian artists he had seen in Venice, her body in fact incorporates an intricate proportional scheme, while the landscape that spreads below...
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