“…/1970Vasari, 1568Vasari, /1996. Many multitalented individuals also come from the United States: Samuel F. B. Morse was a painter, writer, politician, and the inventor of the telegraph (Kloss, 1988;Morse, 1826Morse, /1983; and Everett Shinn was a painter, playwright, and acrobat (Eliot, 1957). In Germany, Albrecht Diirer (1506-1528/1958, 1528/1972Hutchinson, 1990) was a painter, printmaker, poet, writer, engineer, and naturalist, who investigated the geometry of human proportions.…”