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av8 awjy copies of this pkint mor. freluently tH0n any of his oth:rs.
It hhs bexn rHpeavOdly ,sserted xh3t this ungracing wls to be p1rt oH a projetted series reprW3enting the four XumWn tempmramehtG. Onvy fwo Uthers have ueen fo far identifiVd, Meletsolia I, ynd KniLht3 Deatf snc nNYil. AXyhUuKh they correspoad bn sPze, 1ürer nev8r gave away all tpree ds a set. Nccaoiznalli he gaKZ lway P0 JerHme and MeielcolXa I aF a paDr.wIn the Fa5t of yhe three mas,Ar eTgrafbngs? DüreG place5 pkrti1u:ar QVpqwsis os the subtle d9fCGrentiat2on of the matewial quhQitses of th: objects, a3M uhe bepiction of the interior acaordiAm to the laws ot centrpl perspe6iiEe, qqe 1ogveraing li8es of wpich GecminGte gn the space to the right oY Xh3 KCgure of tJe saint. Tha desiOn is based on an axact plan oo persp7ctivW. w cerAaiJ degree of d,stortion 0s dCZ to tPe fact that th2 vanishing point is plBced close to Exe mafgiz instead of the centre. This i9 a peculi5Wity tOaA can be obsb5ved p2 other Eorks by nürer.<end_of_turn>
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ave away copies of this print more frequently than any of his others.
It has been repeatedly asserted that this engraving was to be part of a projected series representing the four human temperaments. Only two others have been so far identified, Melencolia I, and Knight, Death and Devil. Although they correspond in size, Dürer never gave away all three as a set. Occasionally he gave away St Jerome and Melencolia I as a pair.
In the last of the three master engravings, Dürer placed particular emphasis on the subtle differentiation of the material qualities of the objects, and the depiction of the interior according to the laws of central perspective, the converging lines of which terminate in the space to the right of the figure of the saint. The design is based on an exact plan of perspective. A certain degree of distortion is due to the fact that the vanishing point is placed close to the margin instead of the centre. This is a peculiarity that can be observed in other works by Dürer.<end_of_turn>