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Venus Crouching

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Venus Crouching

Albrecht Altdorfer | Marcantonio Raimondi

Date unknown

Medium

Engraving; first state of two (New Hollstein)

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Dimensions

Sheet: 2 3/8 × 1 9/16 in. (6.1 × 4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Albrecht Altdorfer

1475–1538

As an exponent of the Danube School, Altdorfer was indifferent to Italian Renaissance concerns for perspective and proportion. Instead he favored emotion and expressiveness, particularly in his depiction of landscapes and nature, which often dominates human forms in his paintings and prints. Comment on works: History

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