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In 1527, Albrecht Dürer turned the chaos of a military siege into something almost mathematical. This woodcut shows a fortified town ringed by a great circular bastion, with infantry arranged in dense rectangular formations and smoke rising from burning settlements in the distance. Dürer published it alongside his treatise on fortification that same year, making this print both a work of graphic art and a document of the moment when warfare and geometry became inseparable.

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