Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Durer was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the german renaissance, born in Nuremberg, Durer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties due to his high quality woodcut prints.
The Holy Family(19.73.51)
Produced by scratching the surface of metal with a sharp needle, the image has the character of delicate drawings Apparently conceived in an experimental mode and never completed, the print is nonetheless highly evocative. The three ghostly figures who press into the space behind the Virgin and Child-Saint John, the Magdalene, and Nicodemus.
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