Standing Male Nude Holding a Bow ('Poynter Apollo'), 1501–3, Pen and brown and black ink, 8 5/8 x 5 11/16 in. (21.9 x 14.5 cm), Drawings, Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg), As his artistic career advanced and his exposure to Italian art grew, Albrecht Dürer became increasingly preoccupied with the study and representation of ideal human proportion. The Poynter Apollo, named for one of the several collectors who have owned the work over the centuries, is one of four studies by Dürer of the male nude based on classical prototypes and the canon of Vitruvius, the ancient Roman architect whose treatises were reexamined and greatly appreciated during the Renaissance
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