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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]
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
Prints are highly portable and these works made Dürer famous throughout the main artistic centres of Europe within a very few years. [ 12 ] The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari , whom Dürer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective , anatomy , and proportion ...
Albrecht the Elder's panel is usually, but not always, thought to be the first of the two to be executed and, if so, is the earliest extant example of his son's painting. In contrast, a number of art historians have noted that his mother's portrait contains bland passages, especially around the eyes and may be a near-contemporary copy of a lost ...
Dürer wrote in the 1520s that even his simple sketches expressed "the spiritual essence of an artist's creative impulse"—since a talented artist could express more in a simple line-drawing than a mediocre artist could express in a year of painting. [5] By the time he made this statement, the artist was looking back at his production ...
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is a tempera and oil painting by Albrecht Dürer. It is signed and dated 1519 in the centre of the right border, though this may have been added later. Originally painted on panel, it was later transferred onto canvas and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [1]
Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513, engraving, 24.5 x 19.1 cm. Knight, Death and the Devil (German: Ritter, Tod und Teufel) is a large 1513 engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, one of the three Meisterstiche (master prints) [1] completed during a period when he almost ceased to work in paint or woodcuts to focus on engravings.
The Four Apostles by is a Renaissance style diptych painting created by Albrecht Dürer in 1526. [1] This work, which includes two oil-on-panel paintings, depicts four prominent figures of Christianity: Saints John, Peter, Mark, and Paul.