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Pen drawing in Indian ink and watercolor on paper. Head of a Walrus (German: Kopf eines Walrosses) is a 1521 pen drawing painted in watercolour by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, now in the British Museum, London. [1] At the time the walrus' main European population was around Scandinavia, and they were exotic to inland Europeans.
Jean Duvet's series of the same name, Apocalypse, is a set of 15 engravings that emulates the subject matter taken on by Dürer in his mature cycle. Though of the same topic, Duvet creates his set utilizing his own unique engraving style.
The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1945. ISBN 0-691-00303-3; Price, David Hotchkiss. Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith. Michigan, 2003. ISBN 978-0-4721-1343-9. Strauss, Walter L. (ed.). The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints of Albrecht Durer.
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.
A preparatory sketch for the engraving; see also this sketch.. Melencolia I has been the subject of more scholarship than probably any other print. As the art historian Campbell Dodgson wrote in 1926, "The literature on Melancholia is more extensive than that on any other engraving by Dürer: that statement would probably remain true if the last two words were omitted."
The drawing shows a close up of two male hands clasped together praying. Also, the partly rolled up sleeves are seen. Also, the partly rolled up sleeves are seen. The drawing used to be considered a sketch (study) for hands of an apostle , whose full picture was planned to occupy the central panel of the triptych installed in Frankfurt entitled ...
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art : 147 Portrait of Jakob Fugger the Wealthy: c. 1520 —p [41] Tempera on canvas (Tüchlein) 69.4 × 53: Augsburg, Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister, Bavarian State Painting Collections : 143 Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg: 1519 — Tempera on canvas: 83 × 65
Self-Portrait at the age of 13 (the title is modern) is a silverpoint drawing by Albrecht Dürer, dated 1484, when the artist was either twelve or thirteen years of age. It is now in the Albertina museum, Vienna , where it arrived, via the collections of the Imhoff family in Nuremberg and the Habsburg collections, from Dürer's own literary and ...