Illustration to Vier Bücher von der Menschlichen Proportion, plate one from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century
Albrecht Dürer
1528, assembled into portfolio 1937
Medium
Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/text: 23 × 12.9 cm (9 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 35 × 25 cm (13 13/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
198907
About the Artist
Albrecht Dürer · 1471–1528
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) stands as the preeminent figure of the Northern Renaissance and arguably the most influential artist in the history of printmaking. Born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471, and dying in the same city on April 6, 1528, Dürer revolutionized the status of the artist in Northern Europe, transforming printmaking from a commercial craft into an independent fine art and establishing ...