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DÜRER, Albrecht: Large Horse

🖼 Large Horse, 1505
Engraving
167 × 119 cm
Karlsruhe, Germany

Powerful musculature dominates this engraving, captured through meticulous crosshatching that models the horse's athletic form with sculptural precision. Dürer's study revolutionized animal representation in Northern Renaissance art, establishing anatomical accuracy as essential to printmaking mastery.

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E. H. Gombrich
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