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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Die Jungfrau mit Haarband im Strahlenkranz auf der Mondsichel
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Albrecht Durer was born in Nuremberg, Germany on May 21, 1471, the second of eighteen children in the family of a master goldsmith of some repute. Fifteen of the children of this family died at an early age and Durer's mother was often sickly, especially in the last years of her life. Although his father was not pleased with his artistic ambitions, at the age of fifteen, Durer was apprenticed to a painter.
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Durer was probably the greatest artist in German history. By adopting the new for (showing 500 of 5134 characters). |
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