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The Creation of Eve from the Liber cronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle),
Nuremberg, 1492.
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The first great illustrated printed book, the Nuremberg Chronicle is a history of the world from the creation to the early 1490's. It contains 645 different portraits and illustrations printed from woodblocks, some by a young Albrecht Durer, including accurate representations of major European cities. The main text begins with the Creation and ends with the coming of the Anti-Christ and the Last Judgment, then expected in 1500.