1527
Siege of a Fortress
Albrecht DürerGerman, 1471 - 1528
Like many Renaissance artists, Albrecht Dürer was called upon to produce designs for fortifications to respond to technological advances in artillery. This woodcut demonstrates the operation of a siege according to a treatise that Dürer wrote on the subject in the same year: the town with a fortress surrounded by a broad moat and fortified walls appears prepared to survive the attack to which the exposed villages burning on the outskirts have already succumbed.
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