Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer, 1514
Nobody has ever agreed on what this is about, which hasn't stopped four hundred years of people having a go. The grid on the wall is a magic square — every row and column adds up to the same number, and the date's worked into the bottom row. It was apparently printed around the same time as two others that get treated as a matching set.
Erisava: People spend lifetimes decoding this one. What do you get out of just looking?
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