Artist field note

Albrecht Dürer

Observation, intellect and craft meet at extraordinary resolution.

Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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Adam and Eve

1504

Ideal bodies, animals and symbolic detail display engraving as learned invention.

The five in one idea

Dürer joined northern observation to Renaissance theory and remade the artist as an intellectual author.