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Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

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Albrecht Durer
Age: 56 †
Born: 1471
Born: May 21
Died: 1528
Died: April 6
Art Theorist
Artist
Copperplate Engraver
Designer
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Exlibrist
Graphic Artist
Illuminator
Illustrator
Nürnberg
Dürer
Albert Duur
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