Virgin and Child
Albrecht Dürer · 1516 · Oil on spruce
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About this picture
Virgin and Child is a public-domain painting by Albrecht Dürer, dated 1516. Oil on spruce. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Virgin and Child” (1516) is the kind of engraving or woodcut Dürer sent across Europe, modeling form with line rather than with a wash of color.
About the artist
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a German painter and printmaker in Nuremberg. His engravings and woodcuts circulated across Europe and taught other artists his way of modeling with line.
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