This isn't just an engraving of Adam and Eve from 1504. It's a global ad campaign

"Prints interest me because they circulate in society."

Curator Freyda Spira on Albrecht Dürer's print "Adam and Eve."

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Throughout 2013, The Metropolitan Museum of Art invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.

Photography by Katherine Dahab

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