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Albrecht Dürer

Adam and Eve

1504
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
25 × 19.3 cm (9.8 × 7.6 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Adam and Eve exhibits the extraordinary detail and tonal range of which he was capable. The print’s meticulously described landscape and its symbolism are derived from late medieval art, while Dürer’s fascination with the canons of classical proportion and anatomy (Adam is posed like the Apollo Belvedere, while Eve recalls classical statues of Venus) comes from his study of Italian Renaissance art.

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