1538
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Large Wedding Dancers is a 1538 ink by Heinrich Aldegrever, a Northern Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows two people dressed in fancy clothes from long ago. The man holds a tall staff wrapped in fabric, and his outfit has lots of detailed patterns. The woman wears a long dress with ruffles at the neck and cuffs. Both look serious, standing close together. The lines in the print are made by scratching into metal—a method called *engraving*. The artist used tiny parallel lines to create shadows and texture. Next, look up engraving to see how it works.
Heinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making small old master prints in the generation after Albrecht Dürer.
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