Wölfflin chapter 1 Linear and painterly
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Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux)
1498
The Last Supper
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Tempera and oil over ground limestone in glue medium 460*880 cm
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Albrecht Durer (b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
1504
Study for the figure of Eve
British Museum
Study for the figure of Eve 1504 (Ashmolean Museum)
Eve Engraving 1535 Heinrich Aldegrever (Brown University)
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Lucas Cranach (the elder) (b. 1472, Kronach, d. 1553, Weimar)
1532
Venus
Das Städelmuseum, Frankfurt
Tempera and oil on beech, 37*25 cm
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Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1658
Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Etching 6.2*8.1 cm
The Negress Lying Down 1658 (Metropolitan Museum, New York)
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Diego Velazquez (b. 1599, Seville, d. 1660, Madrid)
1657
Las Hilanderas (The Spinners)
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Oil on canvas, 220*289 cm
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Nicolaes Maes (b. 1634, Dordrecht, d. 1693, Amsterdam)
1655
A woman spinning
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Oil on panel
A woman spinning (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)
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Hans Holbein (the younger) (b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London)
1536
Jane Seymour, Queen of England
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Oil on wood 65.5*40.5 cm
Jane Seymour was the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI.
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Frans Hals (b. 1580, Antwerp, d. 1666, Haarlem)
1635
Portrait of a Man
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Oil on oak 24.7*19.6 cm
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Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1631
Diana bathing
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Etching 17.8 x 16 cm
Diana and her Nymphs Bathing, with Actaeon and Callisto 1634 (Museum Wasserburg Anholt, Anholt).
Study of Diana and Actaeon (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden)
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Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1651
The Bathers
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Etching 10.9*13.5 cm
Later etchings
Reclining nude 1650's (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich).
Woman with an arrow 1661 (Norton Simon Art Foundation)
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