Nemesis (The Great Fortune), ca. 1501

Title

Nemesis (The Great Fortune)

Inventor

• after Albrecht Dürer

Engraver

• Albrecht Dürer

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• Renaissance

Object Type

• art print

Material

• handmade paper

Technique

• copperplate engraving

Geographic Reference

• German

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Monogrammiert unten rechts: AD

Watermark

• Meder 20 (Hohe Krone)

Work Catalogues

• Bartsch VII.91.77 1 b
• Meder 1932.98.72
• Schoch/Mende/ Scherbaum 1.95.33
• Hollstein German VII.66.72
• TIB 1001.077

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• allegory

Main Motif

• happiness
• nemesis
• woman

Persons Shown

• Nemesis

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Fortuna
• Jacopo de' Barbari
• Pausanias der Perieget

Illustrated Passage

• Angelo Poliziano: Manto, 1482

Primary

• 92G2 Nemesis (Adrastea)
• 56B2 Happiness, Felicity
• 41D92 woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude

Secondary

• 49D48 sphere, globe ~ stereometry
• 46C131612 bit
• 41C322 mug, beaker, goblet
• 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)
• 25I1 city-view in general; 'veduta'