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DÜRER, Albrecht: Study of an Architect

🖼 Study of an Architect, 1506
Brush and ink heightened with white on paper
386 × 262 cm
Berlin, Germany

Precise pen lines render an architect's profile in sharp focus, his geometric tools and compass scattered below. Dürer's study captures Renaissance mastery of human proportion and technical draftsmanship, establishing the artist as both observer and theorist of human anatomy and design.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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