Drawing of the Month #21

Sunday, 1 June 2025. Newsletter 21.

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)

Lectern with Books, 1521

Brush and black ink and white bodycolour, on gray-violet prepared paper, 19.9 × 27.8 cm, Albertina Museum, Vienna

Christof Metzger, curator for German and Austrian Art until 1760 at the Albertina, Vienna, has kindly chosen our 20th Drawing of the Month.

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 Dürer’s Lectern with Books is in the exhibition Leonardo – Dürer. Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground at the Albertina Museum, Vienna, to 9 June.