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Durer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician and theorist. His high-quality woodcuts established his reputation across Europe in his twenties, and he has been regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. His well known prints include the “Knight, Death, and the Devil”, “Saint Jerome in his Study”, and “Melencolia I”.

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Completed in 1507, the work followed a by Dürer on the same subject, one which offered Durer the opportunity to depict the ideal human figure. Painted in Nuremberg soon after his return from Venice, the panels were influenced by Italian art. Dürer's observations on his second trip to Italy provided him with new approaches to portraying the human form. Here, he depicts [|Adam and Eve] at human scale—the first full-scale nude subjects in German painting.



It is the earliest of Dürer's painted [|self-portraits] and has been identified as one of the first self-portraits painted by a Northern artist. [|[1]] It is currently held and exhibited at the [|Louvre] in [|Paris].