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Durer’s ‘A heavenly body’: painting apocalypse

May 4, 2020 2 Comments
Durer’s ‘A heavenly body’: painting apocalypse

Albrecht Durer surely had the sharpest eye of any painter.  Think of his watercolour A big piece of turf, made in 1503, half a millennium before the hyperrealist painters of our own time.  Or the astonishing sketch of his own head and hand on the reverse of the painting in Paris known as Portrait of […]

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