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DÜRER, Albrecht: Lobster

🖼 Lobster, 1495
Pen drawing on paper
246 × 428 cm
Berlin, Germany

Rendered in precise watercolor detail, the lobster sprawls across the page with anatomical exactness, its shell and claws meticulously observed. Dürer's study exemplifies Northern Renaissance empiricism, elevating a humble crustacean into a subject worthy of artistic mastery and scientific inquiry.

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E. H. Gombrich
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