What is Islamic Art

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viewing her through a grid. [Figure 31] An optical device immobilizes him.
Through it, he looks toward a perspectival convergence point located near
her genitals, which her hand provocatively hides. While he looks at this


Figure 29Albrecht Dürer,Draughtsman Drawing a Man, fromUnderweysung der
Messung mit dem Zirckel un Richtscheyt, in Linien, Nuremberg, 1525. SLUB Dresden,
S. B. 616


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