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BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans: Portrait of Caspar Hedio

🖼 Portrait of Caspar Hedio, 1543
Woodcut
175 × 138 cm
Berlin, Germany

Precise linework captures a bearded scholar in three-quarter view, his gaze direct and penetrating against a plain background. Baldung Grien's 1543 portrait of humanist Caspar Hedion exemplifies Northern Renaissance printmaking's psychological intensity and technical mastery.

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E. H. Gombrich
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