A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes
Albrecht Dürer · 1496/1497 · watercolor and gouache heightened with pen and ink and gold, pasted back onto page 1 of "Idylls and Other Texts"
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About this picture
A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes is a public-domain drawing by Albrecht Dürer, dated 1496/1497. Watercolor and gouache heightened with pen and ink and gold, pasted back onto page 1 of "Idylls and Other Texts". The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes” (1496/1497) 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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