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The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Durer. Mineola NY: Dover Publications, 1973. ISBN 0-486-22851-7; Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish painting on European Art, 1430–1530. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 978-0-500-23883-7; Wolf, Norbert. Albrecht Dürer. Cologne ...
The work is one of 16 woodcuts in Dürer's Life of the Virgin series, which he executed between 1501 and 1511. Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate is the only work in the series to include a date. [1] Throughout the series, the Virgin is displayed as an intermediary between the divine and the earth, yet shown with a range of human ...
The women are positioned in a small interior space which contains a window and can be entered or exited from two sides. The small devil in the left hand recess, who is intended to represent evil, as mammalian anatomy including hind legs, and holds a vaguely described object in his claw that appears to consist of sticks and a piece of string, [10] perhaps comprising a contemporary device for ...
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.
It was begun by Albrecht Dürer just after 1500 and only completed 1510-1511. [1] One of the best surviving sets is now in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. It was begun whilst he was still halfway through work on his Great Passion series. Only sixteen of the plates were complete by 1504, with final completion further delayed by the ...
This is a crucial difference in Albrecht Dürer's construction of the work. His self-characterization is further substantiated by the alignment of the second king and the artists' famous monogram, which appears on a block in the foreground. Even so, there is nothing unusual in forming one of the Magi from a portrait of a real individual. [3]
Melencolia I, Albrecht Dürer, engraving, 1514. The art historian Christa Grössinger described the drawing as the "most affecting of all" of Dürer's portraits. [9] David Price wrote of its "rough depiction of her flesh emaciated by old age", and "existential piety in the cast of Barbara Dürer's right eye, which, almost unnaturally, directs her vision heavenward."
The work was commissioned by the rich merchant Matthäus Landauer of Nuremberg for a chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity and All the Saints in the Zwölfbrüderhaus ('House of Twelve Brothers'), which he had founded with Erasmus Schiltkrot in 1501. The house was a charity institution which could house up to twelve artisans who were unable to ...