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The Great Piece of Turf[1] (German: Das große Rasenstück) is a watercolor painting by Albrecht Dürer created at his Nuremberg workshop in 1503. It is a study of a seemingly unordered group of wild plants, including dandelion and greater plantain. The work is considered one of the masterpieces of Dürer's realistic nature studies. In 1495 Dürer returned from his Wanderjahre in Italy and settled in Nuremberg, where he opened a workshop.[2] He was only twenty-four years old at the time, but the workshop soon gained a great reputation for the high quality of his work.[2] In 1500 he produced what is perhaps his most famous work, his Christ-like Self-Portrait.[3] At the same time he was also creating smaller-scale works that were more focused on the study of nature, such as the Great Piece of Turf, which he painted in 1503, and the Young Hare from the year before.[4] The watercolour shows a large piece of turf and little else. The various plants can be identified as cock's-foot, creeping bent

Great Piece of Turf - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1503 watercolour by Albrecht Dürer Great Piece of Turf Artist Albrecht Dürer Year 1503 Type Watercolour , gouache and highlights Dimensions 40.3 cm × 31.1 cm ( 15 + 7 ⁄ 8 in × 12 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) Location Albertina , Vienna The Great Piece of Turf ( German : Das große Rasenstück ) is a watercolor painting by the German artist Albrecht Dürer , created during the Northern Renaissance. The painting, which at first glance seems to be a random assemblage of grass and plants, depicts an organized, monumental whole. [ 1

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