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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. |
 | | Albrecht's etchings, his woodcuts, and his oils were far better than those of most of his professors, and by the time he graduated, he was beginning to earn considerable fees for his commissioned works. |
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