Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder

A mercenary and miscreant, the Swiss Renaissance artist Urs Graf lived the violence and vice he summoned on his drafting table. Miya Tokumitsu introduces us to his astonishing drawings of soldiers and sex workers, and finds an impotent melancholy within these often nightmarish scenes.

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