# Head of an Apostle Looking Downward [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DÜRER, Albrecht]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Brush drawing with white highlights on a dark ground, 316 x 229 mm ## Commentary Study for the Heller Altar. This was a type that long interested Dürer and is still discernible in the head of St Paul in the Munich paintings of Apostles. All the forms contribute with unusual power to the unified expression. ## Related artworks - [A Young Girl of Cologne and Dürer's Wife]() - [Abduction of a Woman]() - [Abduction of Proserpine on a Unicorn]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam \(detail\)]() - [Adam]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()