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Sammelband containing De Symmetria Partium (1532), De Varietate Figurarum (1534), Etliche underricht zu befestigung der Stett Schloss und Flecke (1527), and Underweysung der Messung (1538)

Albrecht Dürer

Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork Details

Date
1525–38
Medium
Book of letterpress text and woodcut illustations on cream laid paper, extra illustrated with a woodcut in black on ivory laid paper, tipped in after the front flyleaf; in full alum-tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards, sewn on raised thongs, blind tooled ‘all-over’ with small tools, with two brass hook-clasp fastenings and hand-sewn headbands
Culture
Germany
Public Domain
Yes
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