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Sent 1: As for engravings, Durer's work was restricted to portraits and illustrations for his treatise.
Sent 2: The portraits include Cardinal-Elector Albert of Mainz; Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony; the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer; Philipp Melanchthon, and Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Sent 3: For those of the Cardinal, Melanchthon, and Durer's final major work, a drawn portrait of the Nuremberg patrician Ulrich Starck, Durer depicted the sitters in profile, perhaps reflecting a more mathematical approach.
Sent 4: Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Durer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.
Sent 5: He also derived great satisfaction from his friendships and correspondence with Erasmus and other scholars.
Sent 6: Durer succeeded in producing two books during his lifetime.
Sent 7: "The Four Books on Measurement" were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.
Sent 8: The other, a work on city fortifications, was published in 1527.
Sent 9: "The Four Books on Human Proportion" were published posthumously, shortly after his death in 1528.