Adam and Eve, 1504, Engraving, 9 7/8 x 7 7/8in. ( x 20cm), Prints, Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg

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Adam and Eve, 1504, Engraving, 9 7/8 x 7 7/8in. ( x 20cm), Prints, Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg), Throughout his life, Dürer was in thrall to the idea that the perfect human form corresponded to a system of proportion and measurements and could be generated by using such a system. Near the end of his life, he wrote several books codifying his theories, including the Underweysung der Messung (Manual of measurement), published in 1525, and Vier Bücher von menschlichen Proportion (Four books of human proportion), published in 1528 just after his death

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