Standing Male Nude Holding a Bow ("Poynter Apollo")
Albrecht Dürer
1501–3
Medium
Pen and brown and black ink
Dimensions
8 5/8 x 5 11/16 in. (21.9 x 14.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. William H. Osborn, 1963
Accession Number
63.212
Tags
Male Nudes
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 ...