Facsimile of the Albrecht Dürer engraving Adam and Eve (1504). It was published by the Dürer Society around the year 1900. 

Size of sheet: 10 3/8 x 8 in. Very good condition.

Adam and Eve was an important work for Dürer.  More preparatory drawings survive for it than any other of his prints.  It is the only one of his prints to be signed with his full name and birthplace.

In 1505 Dürer embarked on his second journey to Venice, and it is likely that he intended the print to be a showpiece for the Italian market, to enhance his reputation as a master printmaker and to attract commissions. It was perfectly suited to this role as it united the painstaking realism and attention to detail for which the northern masters were renowned, with classical nudity and the ideal of disegno, so highly regarded in Renaissance Italy.

 

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