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De Groff examines Albrecht Durer's engraving Adam and Eve that was made in 1504. It depicts the first couple in ideal proportions and is so skillfully engraved with a million tiny flicks of the burin that you can almost feel the divine breath heaving under Adam's muscular chest. It looks a...

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Published in:Dialogue (Salt Lake City, Utah) Utah), 2017-07, Vol.50 (2), p.217-224
Main Author: De Groff, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
17th century
Art & technology
Art criticism
Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528)
Engraving
Visual artists
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Summary:De Groff examines Albrecht Durer's engraving Adam and Eve that was made in 1504. It depicts the first couple in ideal proportions and is so skillfully engraved with a million tiny flicks of the burin that you can almost feel the divine breath heaving under Adam's muscular chest. It looks as if it could have been made yesterday. It is an astounding print, unequalled in the intervening 513 years. No sophisticated digital process can reproduce the effect of seeing this engraving in person.
ISSN:0012-2157