A drawer draws a portrait An artist makes use of a "vetri piani or glass table device. A glass plate is vertically between the artist and his model placed in a wooden frame. With a pin fatty the contours of the image on the glass to be drawn. This drawing is then transferred to paper. The instrument was by Leonardo da Vinci recommended to draw landscapes. In Dürer it is used for drawing a portret. Manufacturer : print maker: Albrecht Dürer Place manufacture: Nürnberg Date: 1525 Physical characteristics: wood block material: paper Technique: wood block dimensions: image: h 133 mm × W 150 mmToel
A drawer draws a portrait An artist makes use of a "vetri piani or glass table device. A glass plate is vertically between the artist and his model placed in a wooden frame. With a pin fatty the contours of the image on the glass to be drawn. This drawing is then transferred to paper. The instrument was by Leonardo da Vinci recommended to draw landscapes. In Dürer it is used for drawing a portret. Manufacturer : print maker: Albrecht Dürer Place manufacture: Nürnberg Date: 1525 Physical characteristics: wood block material: paper Technique: wood block dimensions: image: h 133 mm × W 150 mmToelichtingIllustratie for: Albrecht Dürer, Underweysung der Messung, Nuremberg: Hieronymus Andreae for Albrecht Dürer, 1525. This copy, however, issued as a single picture. Klinkert, C. Subject: draftsman at work perspective drawing instruments for
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