[Draftsman drawing a lute] / AD, 1525. – Historic Print
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[Draftsman drawing a lute] / AD, 1525.
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A seated draftsman copies a lute through a gridded frame in this 1525 woodcut, one of the illustrations in Albrecht Dürer's *Underweysung der Messung* (*Instruction in Measurement*). The book, printed in Nuremberg, was among the first in German on geometry and perspective, written so that painters, goldsmiths, and other craftsmen could learn to construct accurate images without relying on intuition alone. The lute stands in for the everyday object a artist might be asked to render, and the device shows how a grid could translate a three-dimensional form onto a flat sheet. Dürer's method here reflects the Renaissance interest in mathematics as a foundation for art.
| Created / published | [published 1525] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1520-1530.Woodcuts 1520-1530. |
| Notes | Woodcut illus. and surrounding text in: Underweysung der Messung / Albrecht Durer. [Nuremberg], 1525. Title from Bartsch. Illustrated Bartsch, sixteenth century German artists, Albrecht Dürer / Adam von Bartsch ; edited by Walter L. Strauss. New York : Abaris Books, 1981, no. 1001.347 Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 233. |
| Subjects | Lutes--1520-1530. Perspective projections--1520-1530. Drawing--Germany--1520-1530. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 962 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-166344 |
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