Albrecht Dürer
Institutiones Geometricae

CultureFrench
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  • Institutiones Geometricae
Date1532
MediumBook
DimensionsClosed: 12 1/4 × 8 1/2 × 1 1/8 in. (31.1 × 21.6 × 2.9 cm)
Open: 12 1/4 × 16 1/4 × 1 1/8 in. (31.1 × 41.3 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.2015.5
Non exposé

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Provenance[Christie's, London, sale 10455, Valuable Books and Manuscripts, including Cartography, July 15, 2015, lot 89]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2015.


Exhibition History"The Art and Science of Optics," The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, California, November 12, 2022–March 26, 2023.

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Overall recto
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Study for Manhattan Canyon Wall
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Study for Manhattan Canyon Wall
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stack of printed "bills"
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Clovis Trouille
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Photograph album containing reproductions of paintings
2005.1836.2.H
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2005.1836.2.I
Marcia Herscovitz
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Photocollages printed on black stock.
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Alain Jacquet
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Printed mylar
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Meret Oppenheim
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Debossed print
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