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DÜRER, Albrecht: Adam

🖼 Adam, 1507
Oil on pine panel
209 × 81 cm
Madrid, Spain

Nude figure stands contrapposto against dark background, rendered with meticulous detail and classical proportion in oil on panel. Dürer's idealized Adam reflects Renaissance humanism and German mastery of anatomical study, establishing northern European artistic authority.

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