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DÜRER, Albrecht: Willibald Pirckheimer

🖼 Willibald Pirckheimer, 1503
Charcoal drawing
282 × 208 cm
Berlin, Germany

Precise line work captures Willibald Pirckheimer's contemplative gaze and refined features, rendered in Dürer's masterful engraving technique. This portrait of the Nuremberg humanist scholar exemplifies Northern Renaissance printmaking's power to immortalize intellectual achievement and personal character.

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