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An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century. [12] In the years leading to 1520 he produced a wide range of works, including the woodblocks for the first western printed star charts in 1515 [ 28 ] and ...
Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving with burin on copper, 25.1 x 19.8 cm Adam and Eve, 1507, oil on wood panel, 208 x 91 cm per panel. Museo del Prado.. Adam and Eve is the title of two famous works in different media by Albrecht Dürer, a German artist of the Northern Renaissance: an engraving made in 1504, and a pair of oil-on-panel paintings completed in 1507.
Self-Portrait (Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle) 1493 d+c [9] Oil on parchment transferred to canvas [10] 56.5 × 44.5: Paris, Musée du Louvre : 10 Jesus Child as Redeemer: 1493 dm [11] Bodycolor and gold on parchment: 11.8 × 9.3: Vienna, Albertina 11 Lion: 1494 dm [12] Bodycolor, watercolor on parchment: 12.6 × 17.2: Hamburg ...
German art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts, from the earliest known work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary art. Germany has only been united into a single state since the 19th century, and defining its borders has been a notoriously difficult and painful process.
Self-Portrait (or Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight) is a panel painting by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Completed early in 1500, just before his 29th birthday, it is the last of his three painted self-portraits. Art historians consider it the most personal, iconic and complex of these. [1]
Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (or Eryngium) is an oil painting on parchment pasted on canvas by German artist Albrecht Dürer. Painted in 1493, it is the earliest of Dürer's painted self-portraits and has been identified as one of the first self-portraits painted by a Northern artist. [ 1 ]
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Hans Dürer was last known to have lived in Nuremberg in 1510. At some point he settled in Kraków, Poland. He was one of the artists hired by King Sigismund I to decorate the rooms of Wawel Castle, and in 1529 he was appointed court painter. His death is recorded as having occurred in 1534, however there is a record of payment for work at the ...