Lute in perspective
Date
1530
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528, German) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
2112
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 330mm
width (page): 215mm
height (plate): 140mm
width (plate): 175mm
width (page): 215mm
height (plate): 140mm
width (plate): 175mm
Subject
Description
Study of an artist drawing a lute with perspective, by means of a string drawn from the object [left as viewed], through a canvas window, to a vanishing point on the wall [right]. An artist’s assistant is seen using string or wire to mark up the canvas.
Inscribed: '1530 AD'
Frontispiece plate from Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum Geometricarum libris (1532).
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Inscribed: '1530 AD'
Frontispiece plate from Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum Geometricarum libris (1532).
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.