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| | Albrecht Dürer and The Praying Hands |
 | | Albrecht Dürer was born May 21, 1471, the oldest son and third of eighteen children, to Albrecht Dürer the Elder, an immigrant goldsmith from Hungary, and Barbara Holper, the daughter of Dürer the Elder's employer, in the Imperial Free City of Nuernberg. |
 | | Albrecht, realizing he could learn important artistic techniques from the Italians, planned to travel to Venice, but his father called him home to be married first. |
 | | By now, Albrecht Dürer's hundreds of masterful portraits, pen and silver-point sketches, watercolors, charcoals, woodcuts, and copper engravings hang in every great museum in the world, but the odds are great that you, like most people, are familiar with only one of Albrecht Dürer's works. |
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