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DÜRER, Albrecht: Head of an Apostle Looking Downward

🖼 Head of an Apostle Looking Downward, 1508
Brush drawing with white highlights on a dark ground
316 × 229 cm
Vienna, Austria

Delicate hatching renders a bearded apostle's contemplative face tilted downward, captured with Northern Renaissance precision. Dürer's study demonstrates his mastery of portraiture and influence on German art's technical sophistication during the early sixteenth century.

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