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The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1508 and now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.It is signed on a cartouche which hangs from the artist's self-portrait in the center, saying Iste faciebat Ano Domini 1508 Albertus Dürer Aleman.
Albrecht Dürer". [7] Dürer was born in May 1471, and he himself did not title the work--nor did he title most of his works; given that it was completed in 1484, it is almost equally likely Dürer had created it when he was 12 years old, even though the self-portrait is sometimes known by the invented title "at the age of 13" [ 3 ] [ 8 ]
Albrecht Dürer: Complete woodcuts, 026; Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the British Museum, Vol. 1, C. D. 16; Kurth's Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, 122; Dürer catalog: a manual about Albrecht Dürer's engravings, etchings, woodcuts, their conditions, editions and watermarks, 117
Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, the third child and second son of Albrecht Dürer the Elder and Barbara Holper, who married in 1467. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Albrecht Dürer the Elder (originally Albrecht Ajtósi) was a successful goldsmith who by 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós , near Gyula in Hungary . [ 7 ]
Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman, 1505. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 35 x 26 cm. Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman is a small bust-length oil on elm panel painting by the German artist Albrecht Dürer from 1505. [1] It was executed, along with a number of other high-society portraits, during his second visit to Italy.
Portrait of a Young Woman with Her Hair Down (formerly believed to be a Fürleger) 1497 —c [17] Watercolor on canvas (Tüchlein) 56.3 × 43.2: Frankfurt, Städel : 45K Portrait of a Young Woman with Her Hair Done Up (formerly believed to be a Fürleger) 1497 —c [18] Watercolor on canvas (Tüchlein) 56.5 × 43.1: Berlin, Gemäldegalerie : 46
The Meisterstiche ("master prints") by Dürer are three of his most famous engravings. They are Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), Melencolia I (1514) and St. Jerome in His Study (1514). These three large prints (about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 cm)) are often grouped together because of their perceived quality and unity of meaning, although ...
The Apocalypse, properly Apocalypse with Pictures (Latin: Apocalipsis cum figuris; German: Die heimliche Offenbaru[n]g ioh[an]nis), [1] is a 1498 printed book by Albrecht Dürer containing fifteen woodcuts accompanied by text. The book depicts scenes from the Book of Revelation, and rapidly brought Dürer fame across Europe. [2]