“Dürer treated colour with a draftsman's discipline — ochre and verdigris laid over silverpoint, every leaf and feather measured before it was tinted.”
Albrecht Dürer
Painter · Renaissance · 1471–1528
German Renaissance printmaker and painter whose watercolours and engravings catalogued nature in patient ochre, green, and ink.
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“Dürer treated colour with a draftsman's discipline — ochre and verdigris laid over silverpoint, every leaf and feather measured before it was tinted.”
German Renaissance printmaker and painter whose watercolours and engravings catalogued nature in patient ochre, green, and ink.