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| Dürer's Woodcuts |
| Durer's now famous "Praying Hands" a brush drawing on a blue-grounded paper, was intended simply as a preliminary study for an altarpiece commissioned by a wealthy Frankfurt citizen, Jacob Heller. Nevertheless, the drawing is finished down to the last detail, because Durer planned to transpose it exactly in the final oil painting. |
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