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DÜRER, Albrecht: Head of a Sleeping Child

🖼 Head of a Sleeping Child, 1520
Black chalk, brush and black and gray ink
259 × 182 cm
Hamburg, Germany

Soft charcoal renders a child's peaceful profile in delicate shadow, capturing tender vulnerability through masterful restraint. Dürer's intimate study demonstrates Renaissance humanism—elevating ordinary childhood moments to fine art worthy of profound observation.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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