In a notoriously ugly Nuremberg sculpture inspired by this artist, a huge hare with a golden eye topples off a box. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this artist of the remarkably realistic 1502 watercolor The Young Hare, which is similar to his unfinished preparatory sketches like Praying Hands.
ANSWER: Albrecht Dürer
[10m] In 2020, an excavation above a cathedral gift shop in this city revealed an underdrawing by Dürer, despite there being no record of him visiting. The Young Hare is one of over 100 Dürer works held in this city’s Albertina Museum.
ANSWER: Vienna [or Wien] (The cathedral is St. Stephen’s Cathedral.)
[10h] Another Nuremberg sculpture depicts a skeleton and a dog as tributes to Dürer’s woodcuts for this literary work as a journeyman in Basel. Anonymous artists like the “Master of the Haintz Narr” are credited for the third of this work’s illustrations not by Dürer.
ANSWER: Ship of Fools [or Das Narrenschiff; or Stultifera Navis; or Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam]
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