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Adam and Eve
Albrecht DürerLinkedCulture matchlcp-6cf5b58b91f0
- Date
- 1504
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 51498
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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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Pierre Mariette (1634-1716), Paris [his inscription, verso, Lugt 1789]. Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [his stamp, verso, Lugt 1227]. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York [Lugt 1509]. Sold by Emil Hirsch to the Art Institute, 1944.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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