Wölfflin chapter 1 Linear and painterly
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Albrecht Altdorfer (b. ca. 1480, Regensburg, d. 1538, Regensburg)
1510
Landscape with Saint George
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Altdorfer not Aldegrever (translator's error)
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Michael Wolgemut (b. 1434, Nürnberg, d. 1519, Nürnberg)
1491
Anglia
Liber Chronicarum
20*23 cm
Hispania is on the reverse of the page.
Wolgemut made the illustrations and maps for the Nuremburg Chronicle, whose circulation was second only to that of the Bible.
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Albrecht Durer (b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
1511
Saint Jerome in his study
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Pen 19*15.1 cm
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Adriaen van Ostade (b. 1610, Haarlem, d. 1685, Haarlem)
c. 1663
The Painter
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Engraving
A related painting, of the room above that depicted here, is in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.
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