大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 5月21日 19時17分

#onthisday in 1471, Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg, Germany. Dürer was apprenticed to the painter Michel Wolgemut. He travelled widely including visiting northern Italy, where the works of artists such as Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini had a powerful influence on him. In 1495 Dürer set up his own workshop in Nuremberg, specialising in the production of innovative, high quality prints. Although his Europe-wide fame rested on his graphic art, he also excelled at drawing and painting.

This study is drawn with a brush in black and grey bodycolour. The light is strongly shown by white heightening when it falls onto the woman's face and hair. The light falls down the exact centre of her face. On the left, only the protruding eyelid and cheek bone catch the light. Her eyes are closed and her head centred, its outline strongly marked by black line and silhouette.

By 1520, the date of this drawing, Dürer was deeply interested in the ideal human form. He had made numerous life studies, both male and female. He had also studied classical sculptures to discover the mathematical proportions of the ideal human body. He would then use these in his paintings (portraits, altarpieces and images of saints) and prints. From his research, he wrote an important treatise: ‘Four Books on Human Proportion’. The first book was published in Nuremberg in 1528 and the remainder after his death.

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