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DÜRER, Albrecht: Male Nude, Half-length

🖼 Male Nude, Half-length, 1508
Brush drawing with white highlights on dark paper
198 × 216 cm
Hamburg, Germany

Rendered in precise charcoal, musculature defines a young man's torso in classical contrapposto. Dürer's anatomical study demonstrates Northern Renaissance mastery of the human form, bridging German tradition with Italian Renaissance ideals of idealized proportion.

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