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Campbell Dodgson, Albrecht Dürer (London: Medici Society, 1926). 

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Campbell Dodgson, Albrecht Dürer (London: Medici Society, 1926). 

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Rainer Schoch, Matthias Mende, and Anna Scherbaum, Albrecht Dürer: das druckgraphische Werk (München: Prestel, 2001).

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Rainer Schoch, Matthias Mende, and Anna Scherbaum, Albrecht Dürer: das druckgraphische Werk (München: Prestel, 2001).

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Adam vom Bartsch, \"Volume 7,\" Le peintre graveur ... (Vienne: J. V. Degen, 1803-05).

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Adam vom Bartsch, \"Volume 7,\" Le peintre graveur ... (Vienne: J. V. Degen, 1803-05).

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F.W.H. Hollstein, “Dürer,” German engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1962).

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F.W.H. Hollstein, “Dürer,” German engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1962).

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\"Recent acquisitions\", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.

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\"Recent acquisitions\", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.

, p. 26","date":1961,"id":3371,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774336"},{"boilertext":"Joseph Meder, Dürer-Katalog, ein handbuch über Albrecht Dürers stiche, radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren zustände, ausgaben und wasserzeichen (Vienna: Gilhofer & Rauschburg, 1932).","citation":"Joseph Meder, Dürer-Katalog, ein handbuch über Albrecht Dürers stiche, radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren zustände, ausgaben und wasserzeichen (Vienna: Gilhofer & Rauschburg, 1932)., no. 208","date":1932,"id":5905,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/248550681"},{"boilertext":"An Exhibition of 100 Prints and Drawings from the Collection of James H. Lockhart, Jr. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1939).","citation":"An Exhibition of 100 Prints and Drawings from the Collection of James H. Lockhart, Jr. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1939)., p. 35","date":1939,"id":6186,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/1084283"},{"boilertext":"R. A. Koch, \"Master I. A. of Zwolle and Others: A Handsome Gift of Rare Prints\" The Record XX, no. 2 (1961): 30-42.","citation":"R. A. Koch, \"Master I. A. of Zwolle and Others: A Handsome Gift of Rare Prints\" The Record XX, no. 2 (1961): 30-42., fig. 3, p. 32 (illus.)","date":1961,"id":6187,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774260?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Prints and Drawings","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1500-1600","dateend":1511,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"The Adoration of the Magi","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"x1960-5","inscribed":"Date and monogram, lower margin: 1511 / AD","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"

Dürer intended his woodcuts for a broader market than that for his more expensive engravings, but the degree of refinement he brought to the medium is abundantly evident in this Adoration. The artist’s sophisticated command of single-point perspective, subtle qualities of light and shade, and naturalistic detail—including the African identities of the Ethiopian king and his retinue—are in sharp contrast to the simplified illustration in Koberger’s Nuremberg Bible, above, though created only twenty-eight years later.

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Coincidently, Koberger was Albrecht Dürer’s godfatherand is best known today as the publisher of the massive Nuremberg Chronicle, an illustrated world history according to the Bible—to which a young Dürer is thought to have contributed woodcuts.

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