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DÜRER, Albrecht: Female Nude

🖼 Female Nude, 1493
Pen and ink on paper
272 × 147 cm
Bayonne, France

Soft charcoal renders a standing female figure with anatomical precision, her proportions studied from life. Dürer's early nude study pioneered Northern European engagement with idealized human form, bridging Italian Renaissance classicism with German artistic tradition.

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