Plenty of Nothing

The Temptation of the Idler

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Praying Hands, Athens

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Praying Hands, Saar

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Wacky Dürer

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A Young Woman with Braided Hair

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Dürer Wrocław

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The Vampire Note

On this date in 1922 Germany issued it's largest denomination banknote till then, though as the year progressed they came out with greater and greater denominations, ultimately reaching billions of marks in face value as inflation ran rampant. This one included an engraving of a portrait by Albrecht Dürer, which some people took to be a picture of a vampire and symbolic of France, whose war reparation demands were blamed for the financial crisis. Read about it.

 

Antwerp 1520

An ink drawing of the port of Antwerp in 1520 by Albrecht Dürer. This year marks the 500th anniversary of his visit there. Source.

Dürer Samsung Ad

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Dürer in Linden Wood

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