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Albrecht Dürer: Adam and Eve  wikidata:Q3898508 reasonator:Q3898508
Artist
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
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artist QS:P170,Q5580
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Adam and Eve
label QS:Les,"Adán y Eva"
label QS:Lhu,"Ádám és Éva"
label QS:Lca,"L'Adam i l'Eva"
label QS:Lcy,"Adda ac Efa"
label QS:Lsq,"Adami dhe Eva"
label QS:Lfa,"آدم و حوا"
label QS:Lbg,"Адам и Ева"
label QS:Lfy,"Adam en Eva"
label QS:Lro,"Adam și Eva"
label QS:Lja,"アダムとイヴ"
label QS:Lhe,"אדם וחוה"
label QS:Lfi,"Aatami ja Eeva"
label QS:Lwa,"Adan ey Eve"
label QS:Leo,"Adamo kaj Evo"
label QS:Lcs,"Adam a Eva"
label QS:Lit,"Adamo ed Eva"
label QS:Lfr,"Adam et Ève"
label QS:Lhr,"Adam i Eva"
label QS:Lpt,"Adão e Eva"
label QS:Lzh,"亚当和夏娃"
label QS:Lvi,"Adam và Eva"
label QS:Laf,"Adam en Eva"
label QS:Llt,"Adomas ir Ieva"
label QS:Lsl,"Adam in Eva"
label QS:Ltl,"Adan at Eba"
label QS:Lur,"حوّا"
label QS:Lsv,"Adam och Eva"
label QS:Lid,"Adam dan Hawa"
label QS:Lnn,"Adam og Eva"
label QS:Lsr,"Адам и Ева"
label QS:Lnl,"Adam en Eva"
label QS:Lsk,"Adam a Eva"
label QS:Lru,"Адам и Ева"
label QS:Lpl,"Adam i Ewa"
label QS:Lde,"Adam und Eva"
label QS:Len,"Adam and Eve"
label QS:Lko,"아담과 하와"
label QS:Lmk,"Адам и Ева"
label QS:Lgl,"Adán e Eva"
Object type copper engraving print Edit this at Wikidata
Genre nude Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: "Adam and Eve; standing on either side of the tree of knowledge with the serpent, and in the foreground a cat, an elk, an ox, a hare, a parrot, a mouse."
Depicted people
Date 1504
date QS:P571,+1504-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
Dimensions height: 25.6 cm (10 in); width: 19.5 cm (7.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,19.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
not on view; German XVIc Mounted Roy
Accession number
1868,0822.167
Place of creation Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
Object history 1868: acquired by
Inscriptions

Signature and date top left:

ALBERT · / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / AD · 1504 ·
[Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg made this 1504] Signed and dated on plate
Notes Dürer derived Adam’s form from the "Apollo Belvedere;" Eve was based on his analysis of the "Medici Venus."
The five states of this engraving, an unusually high number for Dürer , together with the large number of preparatory drawings (see cat. nos. 88-90) document the particular care with which Dürer planned the design. It represents the culmination of his study of a system of human proportion seen in his slightly earlier drawings, cat. nos. 70 and 84 and displays his virtuoso mastery of the engraving technique. Dürer 's pride in it is displayed in the longest, most prominent inscription he ever made on an engraving. (Entry from 'Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy', exh cat, BM 2002-3, no. 87)
References

Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (1.Final plate.II.a)

Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.30.1)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0822-167
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