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Albrecht Durer's The Great Piece of Turf (1503) is an astounding image of the Northern Renaissance. Western civilisation at its greatest is about escaping convention and precedent to see and portray the world as it actually is. Here, an ordinary piece of earth is considered a valid subject for a picture, not as incidental detail beside a picture of a saint or a prince, but in itself. Durer looks at the world, suppresses his personal quiddities and historical locus and records the truth, without losing an ounce of beauty. Magnificent, as anyone who saw it at the National Gallery in London last year would have to agree.
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