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Albrecht Dürer

Arm of Eve

1507
point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache

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The blue paper that Dürer used to make this drawing was a specialty of Venetian paper makers in the 16th century, who achieved the color by infusing the paper pulp with dyed fibers.

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