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Knight, Death and the Devil, Melencolia I, and St Jerome are completed elite engraving objects

Dated 1 January 1513: Knight, Death and the Devil, Melencolia I, and St Jerome are completed elite engraving objects. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

Knight, Death and the Devil, Melencolia I, and St Jerome are completed elite engraving objects

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Expensive prints as a taste-gate. Twin of later mass-reproduction access. Albrecht Dürer did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Albrecht Dürer Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional 1471–1528.

Why it matters

Expensive prints as a taste-gate. Twin of later mass-reproduction access.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Albrecht Dürer

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactKnight, Death and the Devil, Melencolia I, and St Jerome are completed elite engraving objects
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1513 · verified

    Expensive prints as a taste-gate. Twin of later mass-reproduction access.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.National Gallery of Art — Dürer printsNational Gallery of Art, Washington · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Met Heilbrunn — Albrecht DürerMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Albrecht Dürer did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAlbrecht Dürer
  2. contributed toFactKnight, Death and the Devil, Melencolia I, and St Jerome are completed elite engraving objects
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). Knight, Death and the Devil, Melencolia I, and St Jerome are completed elite engraving objects. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-meisterstiche-elite

https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-meisterstiche-elite

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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