Year 1512 Artist Albrecht Dürer Period Northern Renaissance | Created 1512 Genre Animal Painting | |
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Type gouache (water-based pigment) Similar Albrecht Dürer artwork, Northern Renaissance artwork | ||
Wing of a European Roller is a nature study watercolor by Albrecht Dürer. Dürer painted it from a dead specimen. The date is indicated by 1500 or 1512, although both the image of the European Roller as well as that of the Birds is 1512.
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Description
The watercolor's dimensions are 19.6 x 20 centimeters. It is in the collection of the Albertina, Vienna.
Background
Dürer began around 1500 the first artist to precisely paint plants and animals. Thirty years later, in 1528, Dürer published in the Proprtionslehre the theoretical background for artwork creation that shows only the truth of nature.
In 2013, the Wing of a European Roller was loaned with other Dürer works, to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, unlike the Young Hare.
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