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Albrecht Dürer

died 496 years ago

6 April 1528

Dürer was a German artist who is known for his work as an engraver. The foundations of descriptive geometry are laid in Dürer's treatise on human proportions published in Nuremberg after his death in 1528.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Durer/