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6.10: Altdorfer’s Battle of Issus

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    Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker provide a description, historical perspective, and analysis of Albrecht Altdorfer’s The Battle of Issus.

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    Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Issus, 1529, oil on panel, 158.4 × 120.3 cm, (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).

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