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DÜRER, Albrecht: The Large Turf

🖼 The Large Turf, 1503
Watercolor and gouache on paper
41 × 32 cm
Vienna, Austria

Meticulously rendered grass and weeds dominate this intimate study, each blade captured with botanical precision through watercolor and gouache. Dürer's 1503 work revolutionized nature observation, treating humble vegetation as worthy of fine art scrutiny and establishing a new standard for naturalistic representation.

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