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BRA1017/A

Title

Subject

Human figure proportion - art

Description

Dürer’s treatise on human proportions represented the culmination of nearly three decades of investigation into the anatomical workings and proportions of the human body - the first of its kind in northern European art. In numerous woodcut diagrams, Dürer developed a system of measurements of the body. Dedicated to Dürer’s friend Wilibald Pirckheimer, this work was not finished when the artist died on April 6, 1528. It was published posthumously for Agnes Dürer, the artist’s widow, with a Latin memorial composed by Pirckheimer in honor of Germany’s greatest artist.

Creator

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528, Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470–1530, and Formschneider, Hieronymus, fl. 1532–1555, publisher.

Source

BRA1017/A. Albrecht Dürer. Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Nuremberg: Hieronymus Formschneyder for Albrecht Dürer’s widow, 1528.

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Date

Rights

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Relation

LastBooks

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Art treatise with woodcut illustrations

Collection

Books and Prints by Albrecht Durer

Citation

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528, Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470–1530, and Formschneider, Hieronymus, fl. 1532–1555, publisher., “BRA1017/A,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed April 20, 2024, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1846.