Dürer: Watercolours and Drawings

Dürer: Watercolours and Drawings

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<div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>Dürer's art: Absolute fidelity to every detail</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text"> Five full centuries lie between us and the life of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). His ability to represent a subject with an absolute fidelity to every detail seemed miraculous to his contemporaries, and still astounds us now: we need only think of his water-colours of plants and animals.<br /> <br /> In addition, Dürer was the first painter to devote such close attention to the art of the self-portrait. No artist before him painted as many as he. The works by Dürer collected in this book show the full range of this artist’s unique genius.</div> <div class="margin-bottom">  </div> <div class="margin-bottom" id="series_text" style="display: block;"> <strong>About the Series:</strong><br /> Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:<ul> <li>a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance</li> <li>a concise biography</li> <li>approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul> </div> </div>