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If you find this interesting, I cannot recommend Philip Hoare's "Albert and the Whale" (mentioned in the article as well) highly enough -- the best work yet by a great writer: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Albert-and-the-Whale/...
Not a very representative artwork in the article. One might get a better idea from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer
This is my personal favorite of his
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I#/media/File%3AA...
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It is an engraving. There's really so much to find in it, one may spend a lot of thoughts looking at it.