Albrecht Dürer
Apollo and Diana
Details
Bartsch 68; Meder 64 a (from d); Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 38 a (from d).
Description
Brilliant, crisp and clear impression, cut just inside the plate edge. Before the faint scratch across Diana’s chest. Despite the small format, the depiction occupies a central position in Dürer’s graphic work. The sheet is an example of the artist’s preoccupation with antiquity and the art of the Italian Renaissance in the course of his studies of the ideally proportioned male nude. For Panofsky, in the male nude “a classic accusation is reunited with a classic form” for the first time (Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum, p. 108). – Verso a horizontal and a vertical smoothed crease. On the left and right edges there are two carefully and inconspicuously restored missing areas. The top right corner reattached. Very rare in this print quality!
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