Albrecht Dürer is the most well renowned…

Albrecht Dürer is the most well renowned German artist of the day.

In addition to his talents as a painter, Dürer develops the art of engraving to an unrivaled level of technical mastery.

A series of extant drawings show Dürer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.

This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.

In these and other engravings, Dürer draws from classical subject matter to depict the ideal human proportions in the Renaissance manner.