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'Head of a Woman', 1520. Woman's face with closed eyes; the light falls down the exact centre of her face with the left side in shadow. Her closed eyes and her ideal face may reflect Dürer's construction of an ideal, and not a real head studied from life, although it could be an idealisation of a real model. Dürer was deeply interested in the ideal, human form and had travelled to Italy to study classical sculptures and their proportions. For Dürer, the chief purpose of these theoretical studies was to discover the mathematical proportions of the ideal human body. From his research, he wrote an important treatise, Four Books on Human Proportion.
PD, Sl 5218-43

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART211395

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3500px × 4988px

Photo Credit Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

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